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Isaiah 6  English Standard Version Anglicised

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:

(D)“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
(E)the whole earth is full of his glory!”[b]

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!”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he (K)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Isaiah's Commission from the Lord

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for (L)us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

(M)“‘Keep on hearing,[c] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[d] but do not perceive.’
10 (N)Make the heart of this people (O)dull,[e]
    and their ears heavy,
    and blind their eyes;
(P)lest they see with their eyes,
    and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
    and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, (Q)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (R)cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 (S)And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned[f] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump (T)remains
    when it is felled.”
(U)The holy seed[g] is its stump.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
  2. Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
  3. Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
  4. Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
  5. Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
  6. Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
  7. Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 6:1 : ch. 1:1; 2 Chr. 26:16-21
  2. Isaiah 6:1 : [John 12:41]
  3. Isaiah 6:2 : Rev. 4:8
  4. Isaiah 6:3 : [See ver. 2 above]; Rev. 4:8
  5. Isaiah 6:3 : Ps. 72:19
  6. Isaiah 6:4 : Amos 9:1
  7. Isaiah 6:4 : 1 Kgs. 8:10, 11; Rev. 15:8; [Ex. 19:18]
  8. Isaiah 6:5 : [Judg. 13:22]
  9. Isaiah 6:5 : [Luke 5:8]
  10. Isaiah 6:5 : ch. 33:17; Jer. 10:10; [1 Sam. 12:12]
  11. Isaiah 6:7 : Jer. 1:9; Dan. 10:16
  12. Isaiah 6:8 : See Gen. 1:26
  13. Isaiah 6:9 : Cited Matt. 13:14, 15; Acts 28:26, 27; [Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; Rom. 11:8]
  14. Isaiah 6:10 : Cited John 12:40
  15. Isaiah 6:10 : Ps. 119:70
  16. Isaiah 6:10 : [Jer. 5:21]
  17. Isaiah 6:11 : Ps. 79:5; 89:46
  18. Isaiah 6:11 : [ch. 1:7; 27:10]
  19. Isaiah 6:13 : [ch. 10:22]
  20. Isaiah 6:13 : [Job 14:7]
  21. Isaiah 6:13 : Ezra 9:2
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