Isaiah 6

Thomson^{(i) 1} In the year in which Ozias the king died I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the house was filled with his glory. ² And seraphs stood around him, each having six wings; and with two they covered the face, and with two they covered the feet, and two they used in flying. ³ And they cried one to another and said, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is filled with his glory." ⁴ And the lintel of the door was shaken with the sound of their cry, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ Whereupon I said, Ah! Woe is me! [for I was confounded] for being a man, and having unclean lips; and dwelling among a people of unclean lips, I have seen with mine eyes the king the Lord of Hosts. ⁶ Then one of the seraphs was sent to me and he had in his hand a live coal which he had taken from the altar with the tongs. ⁷ And having touched my lips he said, Behold this hath touched thy lips, and it will take away thine iniquities and purge away thy sins. ⁸ Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go to this people? And I said, Behold, here am I: send me. ⁹ And he said, "Go and say to this people; hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand: and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive: ¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them. ¹¹ Whereupon I said, For how long? Lord! And he said, Until cities be wasted so as not to be habitable; and houses, so that there be no men; and the land be left utterly desolate: ¹² And after this God will remove the men far away. They indeed who are left in the land shall be multiplied; ¹³ for still about the tenth is in it; and shall again be for a prey, and be like the ilex and like the oak when it hath fallen from its station.