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<a href ="../mark/4.htm#10">Mark 4:10–12</a>; <a href ="../acts/28.htm#16">Acts 28:16–31</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> filled the temple. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they were calling out to one another: <p class="indent1stline">“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; <p class="indent2"> all the earth is full of His glory.” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then I said: <p class="indent1stline">“Woe is me, <p class="indent2"> for I am ruined, <p class="indent1"> because I am a man of unclean lips <p class="indent2"> dwelling among a people of unclean lips; <p class="indent1"> for my eyes have seen the King, <p class="indent2"> the LORD of Hosts.” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And with it he touched my mouth and said: <p class="indent1stline">“Now that this has touched your lips, <p class="indent2"> your iniquity is removed <p class="indent2"> and your sin is atoned for.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: <p class="indent1stline">“Whom shall I send? <p class="indent2"> Who will go for Us?” <p class="reg"> And I said: <p class="indent1stline">“Here am I. Send me!” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And He replied: <p class="indent1stline">“Go and tell this people, <p class="indent2"> ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; <p class="indent2"> be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Make the hearts of this people calloused; <p class="indent2"> deafen their ears and close their eyes. <p class="indent1"> Otherwise they might see with their eyes, <p class="indent2"> hear with their ears, <p class="indent2"> understand with their hearts, <p class="indent1"> and turn and be healed.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span>” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then I asked: <p class="indent1stline">“How long, O Lord?” <p class="reg"> And He replied: <p class="indent1stline">“Until the cities lie ruined <p class="indent1"> and without inhabitant, <p class="indent1"> until the houses are left unoccupied <p class="indent2"> and the land is desolate and ravaged, <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>until the LORD has driven men far away <p class="indent2"> and the land is utterly forsaken. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And though a tenth remains in the land, <p class="indent2"> it will be burned again. <p class="indent1"> As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, <p class="indent2"> so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>the hem of His robe</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew; LXX <i>‘You shall be ever hearing, but never understanding; you shall be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’</i><span class="thin"> </span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/13.htm#14">Matthew 13:14</a>, <a href="../mark/4.htm#12">Mark 4:12</a>, <a href="../luke/8.htm#10">Luke 8:10</a>, and <a href="../acts/28.htm#26">Acts 28:26</a><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew; LXX <i>For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. 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