Add parallel Print Page Options

Isaiah’s Commission

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. 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.

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]

And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house[c] was filled with smoke.

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!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 6:2 Literally “six wings six wings for one”
  2. Isaiah 6:3 Literally “fullness of all of the earth glory him”
  3. Isaiah 6:4 Or “temple”
  4. Isaiah 6:5 Or “silenced”
  5. Isaiah 6:5 Literally “unclean of lips”
  6. Isaiah 6:5 With an emphatic sense: “in the very heart and midst of”
  7. Isaiah 6:5 Literally “unclean of lips”