B. The Book of Emmanuel
Chapter 6
The Sending of Isaiah. 1 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne,(A) with the train of his garment filling the temple. 2 Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they hovered.(B) 3 One cried out to the other:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts!
All the earth is filled with his glory!”
4 At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke.(C)
5 Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips,(D) and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 He touched my mouth with it. “See,” he said, “now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.”(E)
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” “Here I am,” I said; “send me!” 9 And he replied: Go and say to this people:
Listen carefully, but do not understand!
Look intently, but do not perceive!(F)
10 Make the heart of this people sluggish,
dull their ears and close their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and their heart understand,
and they turn and be healed.(G)
11 “How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied:
Until the cities are desolate,
without inhabitants,
Houses, without people,
and the land is a desolate waste.
12 Until the Lord sends the people far away,
and great is the desolation in the midst of the land.
13 If there remain a tenth part in it,
then this in turn shall be laid waste;
As with a terebinth or an oak
whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen.(H)
Holy offspring is the trunk.
Footnotes
- 6:1
- 6:2
- 6:3
- 6:4
- 6:5
- 6:7
- 6:9–10
- 6:11–12
- 6:13
Cross references
- 6:1 : 1 Kgs 22:19–23; Jn 12:41.
- 6:2 : Rev 4:8.
- 6:4 : Rev 15:8.
- 6:5 : Is 29:13; Mt 15:1–11; Mk 7:1–13; Col 2:20–23.
- 6:7 : Jer 1:9; Dn 10:16.
- 6:9 : Mt 13:10–17; Mk 4:10–12; Lk 8:9–10; Acts 28:25–28.
- 6:10 : Jer 5:21; Jn 12:40.
- 6:13 : Is 10:22.
