Isaiah 6

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1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the edges of his robes filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphim; at six each wings: with two he covered his face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two he flew.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! the whole earth is full of His glory!
4 And the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 And I said: Woe is me! I was lost! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, --and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6 Then I flew unto me one of the Seraphim, and in his hand a live coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar,
7 and I touched my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 And 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.

9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye - and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see - and not see.
10 Make the heart of this people, 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 be converted, and I should heal them.
eleven And I said, how long, O Lord? He said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.
12 And the Lord have removed men, and be a great forsaking in the land.
13 And if another shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and it will again be ruined; [But] from both the elms and as an oak, when they cast [is] their root, so the holy seed [is] its roots.

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