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6:1 |
In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
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6:2 |
Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.
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6:3 |
And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
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6:4 |
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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6:5 |
And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
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6:6 |
And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
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6:7 |
and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.
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6:8 |
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.
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6:9 |
And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.
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6:10 |
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.
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6:11 |
And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
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6:12 |
and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.
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6:13 |
But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.
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