1 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
2 Above him stood seraphim, each of them with six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he was flying.
3 They called out to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; all the earth is filled with his glory!"
4 At the sound of the one who called, the posts of the thresholds shook, and the house filled with smoke.
5 And I said, "Woe to me! I am finished. I am a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me holding a glowing coal, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
7 He touched it to my mouth and said, "Look, this has touched your lips. Your iniquity is removed, and your sin is atoned for."
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
9 He said, "Go and tell this people: 'Listen and listen, but never understand; look and look, but never perceive.'
10 Dull the heart of this people, stop up their ears and paste over their eyes, so that they will not see with their eyes, or hear with their ears, or understand with their heart, and turn back and be healed."
11 I asked, "How long, Lord?" He answered, "Until the cities lie in ruins with no one living in them, the houses with no one inside, and the ground is laid waste and desolate,
12 until the LORD has sent the people far away and the abandoned places in the land are many.
13 Even if a tenth part remains in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak that leaves a stump when it is felled. The holy seed is its stump."