Isaiah 6
Lexham English Bible
Isaiah’s Commission
6 In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe was filling the temple. 2 Seraphs were standing above him. Each had six wings:[a] with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 And the one called to the other and said,
“Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts!
The whole earth is full of his glory.”[b]
4 And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house[c] was filled with smoke.
5 And I said, “Woe to me! For I am destroyed![d] For I am a man of unclean lips,[e] and I am living among[f] a people of unclean lips,[g] for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!”
6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.
7 And he touched my mouth, and he said,
“Look! This has touched your lips
and has removed your guilt,
and your sin is annulled.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
“Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?”
And I said,
“I am here!
Send me!”
9 And he said, “Go and say to this people,
‘Keep on listening and do not comprehend!
And keep on looking and do not understand!’
10 Make the heart of this people insensitive,
and make its ears unresponsive,
and shut its eyes
so that it may not look with its eyes
and listen with its ears
and comprehend with its mind
and turn back, and it may be healed for him.”
11 Then I said, “Until when, Lord?”
And he said,
“Until the cities lie wasted without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is ruined and a waste,
12 and Yahweh sends the people far away,
and the abandonment is great in the midst of the land.
13 And even if only a tenth part remain,[h] again she will be destroyed[i]
like a terebinth or like an oak,
which although felled, a tree stump remains in them.
The seed of holiness will be her tree stump.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:2 Literally “six wings six wings for one”
- Isaiah 6:3 Literally “fullness of all of the earth glory him”
- Isaiah 6:4 Or “temple”
- Isaiah 6:5 Or “silenced”
- Isaiah 6:5 Literally “unclean of lips”
- Isaiah 6:5 With an emphatic sense: “in the very heart and midst of”
- Isaiah 6:5 Literally “unclean of lips”
- Isaiah 6:13 Literally “still in her a tenth”
- Isaiah 6:13 Literally “and she will again and she will be to burn”
Isaiah 6
International Standard Version
Holy is the Lord
6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon his[a] throne, high and exalted. The train of his robe filled the Temple. 2 The seraphim stood above him. Each had six wings:[b] with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he was flying. 3 They kept on calling to each other:[c]
“Holy, holy, holy[d] is the Lord of the Heavenly Armies!
The whole earth is full of his glory!”
4 The foundations of the thresholds quaked at the sound of those who kept calling out,[e] and the Temple was filled with smoke.
5 “How terrible it will be for me!” I cried, “because I am ruined! I’m a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of the Heavenly Armies!”
The Calling of Isaiah
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, carrying a burning coal in his hand that he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth and said, “Look! Now that this has touched your[f] lips, your guilt is taken away, and your sins[g] atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord as he was asking, “Whom will I send? Who will go for us?”
“Here I am!” I replied. “Send me.”
9 “Go!” he responded. “Tell this people:
“‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
keep[h] on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 Dull the mind[i] of this people,
deafen their ears,
and blind their eyes.
By doing so, they won’t see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back,
and be healed.”
11 Then I asked, “For how long, Lord?”[j]
He replied:
“Until cities lie waste,
without inhabitants,
and houses without people;
and the land becomes utterly desolate.
12 Until[k] the Lord removes people far away,
and there are many empty places
in the middle of the land.
13 Even though a tenth of its people remain[l] in it,
it will once again be burned,[m]
like a terebinth[n] or an oak tree,[o]
the stump of which, though the tree has been[p] felled,
still contains holy seed.”[q]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:1 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read a
- Isaiah 6:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads six wings, six wings; LXX reads six wings and six wings
- Isaiah 6:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read calling and saying
- Isaiah 6:3 So MT LXX; 1QIsaa reads Holy, holy
- Isaiah 6:4 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads of him who called out
- Isaiah 6:7 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsaf reads the
- Isaiah 6:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads sin
- Isaiah 6:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and keep
- Isaiah 6:10 Lit. Fatten the heart
- Isaiah 6:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Lord
- Isaiah 6:12 Lit. And
- Isaiah 6:13 Lit. tenth remains
- Isaiah 6:13 Or devastated
- Isaiah 6:13 I.e. a sacred tree used for idolatry; cf. Hos 4:13
- Isaiah 6:13 Or Asherah pole; i.e. felled oaks used for making idols; cf. Hos 4:13, Isa 44:14
- Isaiah 6:13 1QIsaa lacks though the tree has been; MT LXX read which, when
- Isaiah 6:13 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks this line
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