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Árið sem Ússía konungur andaðist sá ég Drottin sitjandi á háum og gnæfandi veldistóli, og slóði skikkju hans fyllti helgidóminn.

Umhverfis hann stóðu serafar. Hafði hver þeirra sex vængi. Með tveimur huldu þeir ásjónur sínar, með tveimur huldu þeir fætur sína og með tveimur flugu þeir.

Og þeir kölluðu hver til annars og sögðu: "Heilagur, heilagur, heilagur er Drottinn allsherjar, öll jörðin er full af hans dýrð."

Við raust þeirra, er þeir kölluðu, skulfu undirstöður þröskuldanna og húsið varð fullt af reyk.

Þá sagði ég: "Vei mér, það er úti um mig! Því að ég er maður, sem hefi óhreinar varir og bý meðal fólks, sem hefir óhreinar varir, því að augu mín hafa séð konunginn, Drottin allsherjar."

Einn serafanna flaug þá til mín. Hann hélt á glóandi koli, sem hann hafði tekið af altarinu með töng,

og hann snart munn minn með kolinu og sagði: "Sjá, þetta hefir snortið varir þínar. Misgjörð þín er burt tekin og friðþægt er fyrir synd þína."

Þá heyrði ég raust Drottins. Hann sagði: "Hvern skal ég senda? Hver vill vera erindreki vor?" Og ég sagði: "Hér er ég, send þú mig!"

Og hann sagði: "Far og seg þessu fólki: Hlýðið grandgæfilega til, þér skuluð þó ekkert skilja, horfið á vandlega, þér skuluð þó einskis vísir verða!

10 Gjör þú hjarta þessa fólks tilfinningarlaust og eyru þess daufheyrð og afturloka augum þess, svo að þeir sjái ekki með augum sínum, heyri ekki með eyrum sínum og skilji ekki með hjarta sínu, að þeir mættu snúa sér og læknast."

11 Og ég sagði: "Hversu lengi, Drottinn?" Hann svaraði: "Þar til er borgirnar standa í eyði óbyggðar og húsin mannlaus og landið verður gjöreytt."

12 Drottinn mun reka fólkið langt í burt og eyðistaðirnir verða margir í landinu.

13 Og þótt enn sé tíundi hluti eftir í því, skal hann og verða eyddur. En eins og rótarstúfur verður eftir af terpentíntrénu og eikinni, þá er þau eru felld, svo skal og stúfur þess verða heilagt sæði.

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

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. 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. 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]

And (F)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and (G)the house was filled with smoke. 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!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 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

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for (L)us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 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

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.