Isaiah 6
6
God Calls Isaiah to Be a Prophet
1In the year that King Uzziah died,#6:1 year … died This was probably 740 B.C. I saw the Lord sitting on a very high and wonderful throne. His long robe filled the Temple. 2Seraph angels stood around him. Each angel had six wings. They used two wings to cover their faces, two wings to cover their bodies, and two wings to fly. 3The angels were calling to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord All-Powerful. His Glory fills the whole earth.” 4The sound was so loud that it caused the frame around the door to shake, and the Temple was filled with smoke.#6:4 smoke This showed that God was in the Temple. See Ex. 40:34-35.
5I was frightened and said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure enough to speak to God, and I live among people who are not pure enough to speak to him.#6:5 I am not pure … him Literally, “I am a man of unclean lips and live among people of unclean lips.” But I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”
6There was a fire on the altar. One of the Seraph angels used a pair of tongs to take a hot coal from the fire. Then the angel flew to me with it in his hand. 7Then he touched my mouth with the hot coal and said, “When this hot coal touched your lips, your guilt was taken away, and your sins were erased.#6:7 erased Or “atoned” or “covered over.””
8Then I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Who can I send? Who will go for us?”
So I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
9Then the Lord said, “Go and tell the people, ‘Listen closely, but don’t understand. Look closely, but don’t learn.’ 10Confuse them. Make them unable to understand what they hear and see. If you don’t do this, they might really look with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their minds. Then they might come back to me and be healed!”
11Then I asked, “Lord, how long should I do this?”
He answered, “Do this until the cities are destroyed and all the people are gone. Do this until there is no one left living in the houses and the land is destroyed and empty.”
12The Lord will make the people go far away, and there will be large areas of empty land in the country. 13A tenth of the people will be allowed to stay in the land, but it will be destroyed again. They will be like an oak tree. When the tree is chopped down, a stump is left. This stump will be a very special seed that will grow again.
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Isaiah 6
6
Isaiah’s Call and Mission
1In the year that King Uzziah#2Kg 15:1–7; Is 1:1; 14:28 died, I saw the Lord#Gn 32:30; Ex 3:1–6; 24:9–10; Jos 5:13–15; 1Kg 22:19; Is 31:3; Jn 1:18; 4:24; 12:41 seated on a high and lofty#Is 52:13; 57:15 throne,#Ps 9:7; 11:4; 45:6; Is 66:1; Jr 3:17; Ezk 1:26; 10:1; 43:7 and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2Seraphim#6:2 = heavenly beings were standing above him; they each had six wings:#Rv 4:8 with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.#Ezk 1:14 3And one called to another:
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Armies;
his glory#Ex 16:10; 24:16–17; 40:34–35; 1Kg 8:11; Is 35:2; 40:5; 60:1; Ezk 1:28; Lk 9:32 fills the whole earth.#Nm 14:21; Ps 72:19
4The foundations of the doorways shook#Ex 19:8; Hab 3:3–10; Rv 15:8 at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke.
5Then I said:
Woe is me#Ex 33:20; Jdg 13:22; Is 59:3; Jr 9:3–8; Lk 5:8 for I am ruined#6:5 Or I must be silent
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,#Ex 6:12,30
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Armies.
6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar#Lv 6:12–13; 17:11 with tongs. 7He touched my mouth#Jr 1:9; Dn 10:16 with it and said:
Now that this has touched your lips,
your iniquity is removed
and your sin is atoned for.#Ex 21:30; 30:12–16
8Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking:
Who will I send?
Who will go for us?
I said:
Here I am. Send me.
9And he replied:
Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;#Mt 13:14–15; Mk 4:12; Lk 8:10; Jn 12:40; Ac 28:26–27
keep looking, but do not perceive.
10Make the minds#6:10 Lit heart of these people dull;
deafen their ears and blind their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back, and be healed.#Zch 7:11–12; 1Th 2:16
11Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” #Ps 79:5; 89:46 And he replied:
Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,#Is 1:7; 27:10
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
12and the Lord drives the people far away,
leaving great emptiness in the land.
13Though a tenth will remain in the land,
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed#Is 41:8; 43:5; 45:25; 53:10; 59:21; 65:9,23; 66:22 is the stump.#Is 11:1
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