1 Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet In the year that 2 Kin. 15:7;2 Chr. 26:23; Is. 1:1 King Uzziah died, I John 12:41; Rev. 4:2, 3; 20:11 saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.
2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, Ezek. 1:11 with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 And one cried to another and said: Rev. 4:8 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; Num. 14:21; Ps. 72:19 The whole earth is full of His glory!”
4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of Ex. 6:12, 30 unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from Rev. 8:3 the altar.
7 And he Jer. 1:9; Dan. 10:16 touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged.”
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Gen. 1:26 Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
9 And He said, “Go, and Is. 43:8; Matt. 13:14; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; John 12:40; Acts 28:26; Rom. 11:8 tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 “Make Ps. 119:70; Mark 6:1–6; Acts 7:51; Rom. 10:1–4 the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Jer. 5:21 Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered: Mic. 3:12 “Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate,
12 2 Kin. 25:21; Is. 5:9 The Lord has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So Deut. 7:6; Ezra 9:2 the holy seed shall be its stump.”