Isaiah’s Vision of the Lord
1 In the year that ch. 1:1;2 Chr. 26:16-21King Uzziah died I [John 12:41]saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train6:1 Or hem of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had Rev. 4:8six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
[See ver. 2above] "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
Ps. 72:19the whole earth is full of his glory!"6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
4 And Amos 9:1the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and 1 Kgs. 8:10,11;Rev. 15:8;[Ex. 19:18]the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: "Woe is me! [Judg. 13:22] For I am lost; [Luke 5:8] for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the ch. 33:17;Jer. 10:10;[1 Sam. 12:12]King, the Lord of hosts!"
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he Jer. 1:9;Dan. 10:16touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."
Isaiah’s Commission from the Lord
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for See Gen. 1:26us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me." 9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people:
Cited Matt. 13:14,15;Acts 28:26,27;[Mark 4:12;Luke 8:10;Rom. 11:8]"‘Keep on hearing,6:9 Or Hear indeed but do not understand;
keep on seeing,6:9 Or see indeed but do not perceive.’
10 Cited John 12:40Make the heart of this people Ps. 119:70dull,6:10 Hebrew fat
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
[Jer. 5:21]lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed."
11 Then I said, Ps. 79:5;89:46"How long, O Lord?"
And he said:
"Until [ch. 1:7;27:10]cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 [ch. 10:22] And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned6:13 Or purged again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump [Job 14:7] remains
when it is felled."
Ezra 9:2The holy seed6:13 Or offspring is its stump.