Isaiah 6

​Isaiah's Commission
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robea filled the temple. Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling out to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts;
all the earth is full of His glory.”
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
​Then I said:
“Woe is me,
for I am ruined,
because I am a man of unclean lips
dwelling among a people of unclean lips;
for my eyes have seen the King,
the LORD of Hosts.”
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And with it he touched my mouth and said:
“Now that this has touched your lips,
your iniquity is removed
and your sin is atoned for.”
​Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:
“Whom shall I send?
Who will go for Us?”
And I said:
“Here am I. Send me!”
​Isaiah 6:1-8 • BSB

​He said, Go and tell, now, this people to hear:
keep hearing, but never believing their ear,
keep seeing, but never perceiving what's clear.
Then, harden the hearts of this people, your peers,
and make sure their ears and their eyes have been sealed.
Else, if they can see and can hear with their ears,
and if their hearts understand what is revealed,
they just might return back to me and be healed.

I said, For how long, LORD?  He answered, Until
their cities are ruined and empty; until
their homes are deserted, abandoned, and still,
their fields have been ravaged and wasted; until
the LORD has sent everyone far, far away,
and Israel's desolate day after day.
If even a tenth should remain there, bereft,
the few that survive have more raids to withstand.
As oak and the terebinth stumps will be left,
​the holy seed will be a stump in the land.
BSB: Berean Standard Bible