1 I n the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.

In 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.

2 A bove it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

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

3 A nd one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”

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

4 A nd the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

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

5 S o I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because 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 King, The Lord of hosts.”

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

6 T hen one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.

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

7 A nd he touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged.”

and 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.'

8 A lso I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

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

9 A nd He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

And 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.

10 “ Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.”

Declare 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.'

11 T hen I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered: “Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate,

And 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,

12 T he Lord has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great the forsaken part in the heart of the land.

13 B ut yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump.”

And 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 its substance!'