² And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for ^(A)the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.

² And behold, ^(A)the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And ^(B)the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and ^(C)the earth shone with his glory. ³ And ^(D)the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen ^(E)when he^[a] came to destroy the city, and just like ^(F)the vision that I had seen ^(G)by the Chebar canal. And ^(H)I fell on my face. ⁴ As ^(I)the glory of the Lord ^(J)entered the temple by the gate facing east,

¹⁰ and they ^(A)saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of ^(B)sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

6 In the year that ^(A)King Uzziah died I ^(B)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train^[a] of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him stood the seraphim. Each had ^(C)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one called to another and said:

⁴ And ^(F)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and ^(G)the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ And I said: “Woe is me! ^(H)For I am lost; ^(I)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the ^(J)King, the Lord of hosts!”