1In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2Above it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3And one called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory."
4The posts of the door shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
5Then I said, "How terrible for me! I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips. And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."
6Then one of the seraphim flew to me. In his hand was a live coal, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
7He laid it on my mouth and said, "Look, this has touched your lips. Your wickedness is taken away, and your sin is wiped clean."
8Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me."
9And he said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You will hear indeed, but not understand. You will see indeed, but not perceive.'"
10"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn back, and be healed."
11Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities lie waste with no one living in them, and the houses have no people, and the land is completely empty,"
12"and the LORD has sent people far away, and there is a great emptiness in the middle of the land."
13"But still a tenth will be in it, and it will return, and will be eaten up: like a teil tree, and like an oak, whose stump remains in them when they cast their leaves. The holy seed shall be its stump."