The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

⭑ World English Bible Catholic :: King James Version ⭑

- Chapter 6 -

(Matthew 13:10–17; Mark 4:10–12; Acts 28:16–31)

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.

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, 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!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the holy seed is its stump.”

(Matthew 13:10–17; Mark 4:10–12; Acts 28:16–31)

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.(a)

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.(b)

(c)

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.(d)

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 mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.(e)

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:(f)

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.(g)

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.(h)

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.(i)

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 convert, and be healed.

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,(j)

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.(k)

(l)

Footnotes

(a)6:1 his…: or, the skirts thereof

(b)6:3 one…: Heb. this cried to this

(d)6:4 door: Heb. thresholds

(e)6:5 undone: Heb. cut off

(f)6:6 having…: Heb. and in his hand a live coal

(g)6:7 laid…: Heb. caused it to touch

(h)6:8 Here…: Heb. behold me

(i)6:9 indeed, but understand: or, without ceasing, etc: Heb. in hearing, etc

(j)6:11 utterly…: Heb. desolate with desolation

(k)6:13 and it…: or, when it is returned, and hath been broused

(l)6:13 substance: or, stock, or, stem