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¹ In the year that king `Uzziyah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. ² Above him stood the serafim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. ³ One cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts: the whole eretz is full of his glory. ⁴ The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ 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 my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts. ⁶ Then flew one of the serafim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: ⁷ and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven. ⁸ I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.

⁹ He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.' ¹⁰ 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 turn again, and be healed." ¹¹ Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste, ¹² and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. ¹³ If there are yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock of it."