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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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English Standard Version

Isaiah 6

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Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

1 In the year that (a)King Uzziah died I (b)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train[a] of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had (c)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:

(d)"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
(e)the whole earth is full of his glory!"[b]

4 And (f)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and (g)the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: "Woe is me! (h)For I am lost; (i)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the (j)King, the Lord of hosts!"

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he (k)touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."

Isaiah's Commission from the Lord

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for (l)us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me." 9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people:

(m)"‘Keep on hearing,[c] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[d] but do not perceive.'
10 (n)Make the heart of this people (o)dull,[e]
    and their ears heavy,
    and blind their eyes;
(p)lest they see with their eyes,
    and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
    and turn and be healed."
11 Then I said, (q)"How long, O Lord?"
And he said:
"Until (r)cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 (s)And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned[f] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump (t)remains
    when it is felled."
(u)The holy seed[g] is its stump.

 
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