1 In die sterfjaar van koning Uss¡a het ek die Here sien sit op 'n hoë en verhewe troon, terwyl sy some die tempel gevul het.

2 Serafs het bo Hom gestaan; elkeen het ses vlerke gehad: met twee het hy sy aangesig bedek, en met twee het hy sy voete bedek, en met twee het hy gevlieg.

3 En die een het die ander toegeroep en gesê: Heilig, heilig, heilig is die HERE van die leërskare. Die hele aarde is van sy heerlikheid vol!

4 En die drumpelposte het gebewe van die geluid van die roepers, en die huis het vol rook geword.

5 Toe het ek gesê: Wee my, ek is verlore! Want ek is 'n man onrein van lippe en woon onder 'n volk wat onrein van lippe is; want my oë het die Koning, die HERE van die leërskare, gesien!

6 Maar een van die serafs het na my toe gevlieg met 'n gloeiende kool in sy hand, wat hy met 'n tang van die altaar af geneem het,

7 en my mond daarmee aangeraak en gesê: Kyk, dit het jou lippe aangeraak, en jou skuld is weg en jou sonde versoen.

8 Daarop hoor ek die stem van die Here wat sê: Wie sal Ek stuur? En wie sal vir ons gaan? Toe antwoord ek: Hier is ek, stuur my.

9 En Hy het gespreek: Gaan sê aan hierdie volk: Hoor altyddeur, maar verstaan nie, en sien altyddeur, maar bemerk nie.

10 Maak die hart van hierdie volk vet en maak hulle ore swaar en bestryk hulle oë, sodat hulle nie sien met hul oë en met hul ore nie hoor en hul hart nie verstaan nie, en hulle hul nie bekeer en gesond word nie.

11 Toe sê ek: Hoe lank, Here? En Hy antwoord: Totdat die stede verwoes lê, sonder inwoners, en die huise sonder mense en die land verwoes is tot 'n wildernis,

12 en die HERE die mense ver verwyder het en die verlatenheid groot is in die land.

13 En as nog 'n tiende deel daarin is, sal dit weer wees tot verwoesting; maar soos by die terpentynboom en die eikeboom -- as hulle omgekap word -- 'n stomp oorbly, so sal die heilige geslag die stomp daarvan wees.

1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.

2 Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.

3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.

4 And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.

5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

6 Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.

7 And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.

8 And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).