006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on
a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
006:002 Above 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.
006:003 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh
of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"
006:004 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him
who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
006:005 Then I said, "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, Yahweh of Armies!"
006:006 Then 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.
006:007 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has
touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away,
and your sin forgiven."
006:008 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
006:009 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed,
but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'
006:010 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 turn again, and be healed."
006:011 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities
are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man,
and the land becomes utterly waste,
006:012 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places
are many in the midst of the land.
006:013 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed:
as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they
are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
007:001 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son
of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
007:002 It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied
with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
007:003 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz,
you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit
of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
007:004 Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid,
neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails
of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria,
and of the son of Remaliah.
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