Isaiah 6:1-12 (6th Hour)
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- In 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.
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- Above 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.
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- And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!”
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- And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.
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- So 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.”
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- Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.
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- And he touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.”
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- Also 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.”
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- And He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
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- “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.”
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- Then 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,
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- The Lord has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.