Isaías 6

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. 3 One called to another, and said,

"Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies!

The whole earth is full of his glory!"

4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, "Woe is 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, Yahweh of Armies!"

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"

Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"

9 He said, "Go, and tell this people,

‘You hear indeed,

but don’t understand.

You see indeed,

but don’t perceive.’

10 Make the heart of this people fat.

Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;

lest they see with their eyes,

hear with their ears,

understand with their heart,

and turn again, and be healed."

11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?"

He answered,

"Until cities are waste without inhabitant,

houses without man,

the land becomes utterly waste,

12 and Yahweh has removed men far away,

and the forsaken places are many within the land.

13 If there is a tenth left in it,

that also will in turn be consumed,

as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down,

so the holy seed is its stump."

He Kitenga o Ihowā i roto i te Temepara

1 I te tau i mate ai a Kīngi Utia i kite ahau i te Ariki e noho ana i runga i te torōna, he tiketike, he mea whakarewa ake ki runga, kī tonu anō hoki te temepara i te remu o tōna. 2 E tū ana ngā herapima i runga ake i a ia; e ono ngā parirau o tētahi, o tētahi: i hīpokina e ia tōna mata ki tētahi rua, ōna waewae hoki ki tētahi rua, ā, ko tētahi rua hei rere māna. 3 Ā, i karanga rātou tētahi ki tētahi, i mea:

"He tapu, he tapu, he tapu, a Ihowā o ngā mano;

kī katoa te whenua i tōna korōria."

4 I oioi anō ngā pou o ngā tatau i te reo o tērā i karanga rā, kī tonu te whare i te paowa.

5 Nā, ko tāku kīanga ake: "Auē te mate mōku! Ka ngaro hoki ahau; he tangata ngutu poke hoki ahau, e noho ana i waenganui i te iwi ngutu poke; kua kite nei hoki ōku kanohi i te kīngi, i a Ihowā o ngā mano!"

6 Nā, ko te rerenga mai o tētahi o ngā herapima ki ahau, he waro mura i tōna ringa, he mea tango mai e ia i te āta ki te kokopi. 7 Whakapāngia mai ana e ia ki tōku māngai, me tāna kī mai, "Nanā, kua pā tēnei ki ōu ngutu; nā, kua riro tōu hē, kua murua tōu hara."

8 Nā, ka rongo ahau i te reo o te Ariki e mea ana, "Ko wai tāku e unga ai, ko wai tā tātou hei haere?"

Anō rā ko ahau, "Tēnei ahau, ngarea ko ahau."

9 Anō rā ko ia, "Haere, mea atu ki tēnei iwi:

‘Rongo noa koutou, e kore e mātau;

titiro noa koutou, e kore e kite.’

10 Meinga te ngākau o tēnei iwi kia ngako,

ō rātou taringa kia taimaha,

whakamoea ō rātou kanohi;

kei kite ō rātou kanohi,

kei rongo ō rātou taringa,

kei mātau ō rātou ngākau,

ā, ka tahuri, ka whakaorangia."

11 Anō rā ko ahau, "E te Ariki, kia pēhea te roa?"

Nā, ka mea ia:

"Kia ururuatia rā anō ngā pā,

ā, kore noa he tangata hei noho,

kia kore rā anō he tangata mō roto i ngā whare,

kia tino ururuatia rawatia anō hoki te whenua;

12 kia whakamataratia e Ihowā ngā tāngata ki tawhiti,

ā, ka nui te whakarerenga i waenganui i te whenua.

13 Ā, ki te mau anō he whakatekau i roto i a ia,

ka kainga tuaruatia anō ia;

ka rite ki te terepini, ki te oki,

e mau tonu nei tōna uho, i te mea kua tuaina."

Nā, hei uho mōna te uri tapu.