[1] In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. [2] Above him stood
the seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and
with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. [3] One cried to
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Hosts: the whole earth is
full of his glory. [4] The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice
of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke. [5] 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 my eyes have seen the King,
Yahweh of Hosts. [6] Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having a live
coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: [7]
and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Behold, this has touched your
lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven. [8] I heard
the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Then I said, Here am I; send me. [9] He said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear you indeed, but don`t understand; and see you indeed, but don`t
perceive. [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 turn again, and be healed.
[11] Then said I, Lord, how long? He answered, Until cities be waste
without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly
waste, [12] and Yahweh have removed men far away, and the forsaken places
be many in the midst of the land. [13] If there be yet a tenth in it, it
also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock
remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock of it.