6
1 In the year that the Melech Uziyah died, I saw Adonoi sitting upon a kisse, high and lifted up, and His robe filled the Heikhal. 2 Above Him stood ministering the* seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said,
Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, is Hashem Tzva'os;
kol ha'aretz is full of His kavod.
4 And the doorposts shook at the voice of him that cried, and the Beis† was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Oy (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 mine eyes have seen HaMelech, Hashem Tzva'os.
6 Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his yad, which he had taken with the tongs from off the Mizbe'ach: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Hinei, this hath touched thy lips; and thine avon (iniquity) is taken away, and kapporah is made for the purging of thy chattat (sin).
8 Also I heard the voice of Adonoi, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?
Then said I, Hineini; send me. 9 And He said, Go, and tell this people:
Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
and see indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the lev HaAm hazeh stubborn,
and make their ears stopped up,
their eyes heavy; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their lev.
And have a spiritual turnaround conversion,
and be healed.
11 Then cried I, Adonoi, ad mosai (how much longer [will this go on])?
And He answered,
Until the towns be wasted without inhabitant,
and the batim (houses) are without man,
and the ground be utterly desolate, a wilderness,
12 And Hashem have removed men far away,
and there be many forsaken places within the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth,
and it shall be given up to destruction,
like the terebinth and like the oak,
when they are felled, leave‡ a root-stump:
so the root-stump shall be the zera kodesh.§
* 6:2 flaming † 6:4 Hamikdash ‡ 6:13 as a remnant § 6:13 T.N. This next chapter is possibly the most important in the Bible and is dealt with in The Translator to the Reader.