Isaiah 6:1-10

Isaiah’s Commission

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 Then 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!”
9 He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. [a]Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

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Cross References 34

  • 1. S 2 Chronicles 26:22,23
  • 2. S 2 Kings 15:7
  • 3. S Exodus 24:10; S Numbers 12:8; John 12:41
  • 4. S 1 Kings 22:19; S Psalms 9:4; S Psalms 123:1; S Revelation 4:2
  • 5. Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:12
  • 6. Revelation 1:13
  • 7. Ezekiel 1:5; Ezekiel 10:15; Revelation 4:8
  • 8. Ezekiel 1:11
  • 9. S Exodus 15:11
  • 10. Psalms 89:8
  • 11. Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 54:5; Malachi 1:11
  • 12. S Exodus 16:7; Numbers 14:21; Psalms 72:19; Revelation 4:8
  • 13. S Exodus 19:18; S Exodus 40:34; Ezekiel 43:5; Ezekiel 44:4; Revelation 15:8
  • 14. S Isaiah 5:8
  • 15. S Numbers 17:12; S Deuteronomy 5:26
  • 16. Luke 5:8
  • 17. Exodus 6:12
  • 18. Isaiah 59:3; Jeremiah 9:3-8
  • 19. S Exodus 24:10
  • 20. Psalms 45:3; Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 32:1; Isaiah 33:17; Jeremiah 51:57
  • 21. S Job 42:5
  • 22. S Leviticus 10:1; Ezekiel 10:2
  • 23. Jeremiah 1:9; Daniel 10:16
  • 24. S Leviticus 26:41; Isaiah 45:25; Daniel 12:3; 1 John 1:7
  • 25. S Job 40:9; Acts 9:4
  • 26. Jeremiah 26:12,15
  • 27. S Genesis 1:26
  • 28. S Genesis 22:1; S Exodus 3:4
  • 29. Ezekiel 3:11; Amos 7:15; Matthew 28:19
  • 30. Jeremiah 5:21; S Matthew 13:15*; Luke 8:10*
  • 31. S Exodus 4:21; Deuteronomy 32:15; Psalms 119:70
  • 32. Isaiah 29:9; Isaiah 42:18-20; Isaiah 43:8; Isaiah 44:18
  • 33. S Deuteronomy 29:4; Ezekiel 12:2; Mark 8:18; Jeremiah 5:21
  • 34. S Deuteronomy 32:39; Matthew 13:13-15; Mark 4:12*; John 12:40*; Acts 28:26-27*

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew; Septuagint "‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding;" / "you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’" / 10"This people’s heart has become calloused;" / "they hardly hear with their ears," / "and they have closed their eyes"
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