Isa 6
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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted
up; and his train filled the temple.
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Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
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And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is YHWH of hosts: the whole
earth is full of his glory.
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And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him whom cried, and the
house was filled with smoke.
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Then said I, 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 mine eyes have seen the King,
YHWH of hosts.
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Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar:
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and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; and
your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.
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And 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.
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And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see
you indeed, but perceive not.
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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
lest they sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their
heart, and turn again, and be healed.
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Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant,
and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
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and YHWH have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of
the land.
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And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth,
and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the
stock thereof.