1. In the year that king Uzziah died (B.C. 758), I saw also the Lord
sitting on a throne high and lifted up, and His skirts filling the
palace. 2. Seraphim standing above it. Six wings to each. With two he
covers his face, and with two he covers his feet, and with two he
flies. 3. And one cried to another, and said,
Holy, Holy, Holy! _is_ Jehovah of hosts!
The fulness of the whole earth is His glory!
4. Then stirred the bases of the thresholds at the voice that cried,
and the house is filled with smoke.
5. And I said, Woe is me, for I am undone! for a man of impure lips
am I, and in the midst of a people of impure lips I am dwelling: for
the King, Jehovah of hosts, my eyes have seen.
6. Then there flew to me one of the seraphim, and in his hand a live
coal; with tongs he took it from off the altar; 7. and he caused it
to touch my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thy
iniquity is gone, and thy sin shall be atoned for.
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; behold me; send me.
9. And He said, Go and say to this people, Hear indeed, but
understand not; and see indeed, but know not. 10. Make fat the heart
of this people, and its ears make heavy, and its eyes smear; lest it
see with its eyes, and with its ears hear, and its heart understand,
and it turn to me, and be healed.