Isaiah 6 DBY
Summary: In the year King Uzziah died, Isaiah sees the LORD high and lifted up on a throne, His train filling the temple, attended by seraphim who cry "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts" (v. 3) as the doorposts shake and the house fills with smoke. Overwhelmed by his own uncleanness before such holiness, Isaiah cries "Woe is me," and a seraph touches his mouth with a live coal from the altar, declaring his guilt taken away and sin atoned for. When the LORD asks whom to send, Isaiah answers "Here am I; send me," and receives the hard commission to preach to a people who will hear but not understand, until cities lie waste — though a tenth, a holy seed, will remain like a stump that can still sprout.
1In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
2Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.
3And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
4And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for 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, Jehovah of hosts.
6And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
7and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.
8And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.
9And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.
10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.
11And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.
13But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.
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