[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).
