God calls Isaiah, cleanses him, commissions him
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📚In the year that King Uzziah died✭ I saw✭ the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 📚Above it stood the seraphim✭. 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 were shaken
at the voice of him who cried out,
and the house was filled with smoke.
5 📚Then I said, “Woe to 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”.
6 📚✭Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar, 7 📚And he touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, this has touched your lips, and your guilt is taken away, and your sin is purged”.
8 📚✭Also 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 📚✭And he said,
“Go, and tell this people,
‘You listen and listen,
but you do not understand;
and you look and look,
but you do not perceive.’
10 📚Make the heart of this people dull,
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 to me and be healed”.
11 📚Then I said, “Lord,
how long?” And he answered,
“Until the cities are made a wasteland
without inhabitant,
and the houses without man,
and the land is utterly desolate,
12 📚And the LORD has removed men far away,
and the forsaken places in the midst
of the land are many.
13 📚✭But yet a tenth part will be in it,
and it will return and be
for consuming,
like a terebinth tree or an oak.
Its stump remains to it
when it is cut down.
So the holy seed will be its stump✭”.