6 In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I also saw the LORD sitting upon a high throne and lifted up. And the lower parts of it filled the Temple.

² The seraphims stood upon it. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. And with two he covered his feet. And with two he flew.

³ And one cried to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts! The whole Earth is full of His Glory!”

⁴ And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him who cried. And the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of polluted lips! And I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips! For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of Hosts.”

⁶ Then one of the seraphims flew to me with a hot coal in his hand, which he had taken from the Altar with the Tongs:

⁷ And he touched my mouth, and said, “Lo, this has touched your lips, and your iniquity shall be taken away. And your sin shall be purged.”

⁸ Also, I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, “Whom shall I send? And who shall go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me.”

⁹ And He said, “Go, and say to this people, ‘You shall indeed hear, but you shall not understand. You shall plainly see, and not perceive.’

¹⁰ “Make the heart of this people fat. 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 convert and be healed.”

¹¹ Then I said, “LORD, how long?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

¹² “And the LORD has removed men far away. And there is a great desolation in the midst of the land.

¹³ “But yet, in it shall be a tenth, and shall return and shall be eaten up as an elm or an oak, which has a substance in them even when they are made stumps. The Holy Seed shall be its substance.”