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In the year that ^(a)King Uzziah died I ^(b)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train^[a] of his robe filled the temple.

Above him stood the seraphim. Each had ^(c)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

And one called to another and said: ^(d)"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; ^(e)the whole earth is full of his glory!"^[b]

And ^(f)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and ^(g)the house was filled with smoke.

And I said: "Woe is me! ^(h)For I am lost; ⁽ⁱ⁾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 ^(j)King, the Lord of hosts!"

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

And he ^(k)touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for ^(l)us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me."

And he said, "Go, and say to this people: ^(m)"‘Keep on hearing,^[c] but do not understand; keep on seeing,^[d] but do not perceive.'

⁽ⁿ⁾Make the heart of this people ^(o)dull,^[e] and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; ^(p)lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

Then I said, ^(q)"How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until ^(r)cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,

and the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

^(s)And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned^[f] again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump ^(t)remains when it is felled." ^(u)The holy seed^[g] is its stump.