¹In the year that King Uzziah died , I saw the Lord sitting on a throne , high and lifted up ; and his train filled the temple .

²Above 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 .

³One called to another , and said ,

“Holy , holy , holy , is the LORD of Hosts !

The whole earth is full of his glory !”

⁴The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called , and the house was filled with smoke .

⁵Then 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 Hosts !”

⁶Then 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 .

⁷He touched my mouth with it , and said , “Behold , this has touched your lips ; and your iniquity is taken away , and your sin forgiven .”

⁸I heard the Lord’s voice , saying , “Whom shall I send , and who will go for us ?”

Then I said , “Here I am . Send me !”

⁹He said , “Go , and tell this people ,

‘You hear indeed ,

but don’t understand .

You see indeed ,

but don’t perceive .’

¹⁰Make 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 .”

¹¹Then I said, “Lord, how long ?”

He answered,

“Until cities are waste without inhabitant ,

houses without man,

the land becomes utterly waste ,

¹²and the LORD has removed men far away ,

and the forsaken places are many within the land .

¹³If 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.”