, “Woe to me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of armies.”
6Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
7He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your guilt is taken away and atonement is made for your sin.”
Isaiah’s Commission
8Then 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!”
9And He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on listening, but do not understand; And keep on looking, but do not gain knowledge.’
10“Make the hearts of this people [d]insensitive, Their ears [e]dull, And their eyes [f]blind, So that they will not see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed.”
11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,
12The LORD has completely removed people, And there [g]are many forsaken places in the midst of the land.
13“Yet there will still be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is cut down. The holy seed is its stump.”
3 Lit fullness of the whole earth is His glory
4 Lit door sockets
4 Lit house
10 Lit fat
10 Lit heavy
10 Lit sealed over
12 Or forsakenness will be great
