Isaiah 6

1In 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.

1In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.

1In the year of the death of king Uzziah--I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.

2Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.

2Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew.

2Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two <FI>each<Fi> covereth its face, and with two <FI>each<Fi> covereth its feet, and with two <FI>each<Fi> flieth.

3And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.

3And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory,

3And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth <FI>is<Fi> His glory.'

4And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.

4And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

4And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.

5Then 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.

5And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

5And I say, `Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man--unclean of lips <FI>am<Fi> I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

6Then 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.

6And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

6And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken <FI>it<Fi> from off the altar,)

7And 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.

7And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

7and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.'

8And 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.

8And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.

8And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?' And I say, `Here <FI>am<Fi> I, send me.'

9And 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.

9And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.

9And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye--to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye--to see, and ye do not know.

10Make 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.

10Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.

10Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

11Then 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,

11And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

11And I say, `Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, `Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted--a desolation,

12And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

12And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.

12And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great <FI>is<Fi> the forsaken part in the heart of the land.

13And 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).

13And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

13And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed <FI>is<Fi> its substance!'