Isaiah 6

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

1 In the year that s King Uzziah died I t saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train 1 of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had u six 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:
u "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
v the whole earth is full of his glory!" 2

4 And w the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and x the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: "Woe is me! y For I am lost; z 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 a 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 b touched 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 c us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people:
d "'Keep on hearing, 3 but do not understand;
keep on seeing, 4 but do not perceive.'
 10 e Make the heart of this people f dull, 5
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
g 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, h "How long, O Lord?"
And he said:
"Until i 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 j And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned 6 again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump k remains
when it is felled."
l The holy seed 7 is its stump.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
    2 Chronicles 26:16 - 21
    But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
  2. Cross References
    John 12:41
    Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
  3. Cross References
    Revelation 4:8
    And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:2
    Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 72:19
    Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
  6. Cross References
    Amos 9:1
    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: "Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.
  7. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:10 - 11
    And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord.
    Revelation 15:8
    And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
    Exodus 19:18
    Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
  8. Cross References
    Judges 13:22
    And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God.
  9. Cross References
    Luke 5:8
    But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:17
    Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
    Jeremiah 10:10
    But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
    1 Samuel 12:12
    And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the Lord your God was your king.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:9
    Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
    Daniel 10:16
    And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, "O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 1:26
    Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
  13. Cross References
    Matthew 13:14 - 15
    Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.
    Acts 28:26 - 27
    'Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.
    Mark 4:12
    So that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.
    Luke 8:10
    He said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
    Romans 11:8
    As it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.
  14. Cross References
    John 12:40
    "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them."
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 119:70
    Their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:21
    Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
  17. Cross References
    Psalms 79:5
    How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
    Psalms 89:46
    How long, O Lord ? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
  18. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:7
    Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
    Isaiah 27:10
    For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.
  19. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:22
    For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
  20. Cross References
    Job 14:7
    For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
  21. Cross References
    Ezra 9:2
    For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.
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