Isaiah

1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

3One called to another, and said,“Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Armies!The whole earth is full of his glory!”

4The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!”

6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

7He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

8I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

9He said, “Go, and tell this people,‘You hear indeed,but don’t understand.You see indeed,but don’t perceive.’

10Make the heart of this people fat.Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;lest they see with their eyes,hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered,“Until cities are waste without inhabitant,houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

12and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.

13If there is a tenth left in it,that also will in turn be consumed,as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down,so the holy seed is its stump.”

主呼召以賽亞作先知

1當烏西雅王崩的那年，我見主坐在高高的寶座上。他的衣裳垂下，遮滿聖殿。

2其上有撒拉弗侍立，各有六個翅膀：用兩個翅膀遮臉，兩個翅膀遮腳，兩個翅膀飛翔；

3彼此呼喊說：聖哉！聖哉！聖哉！萬軍之耶和華； 他的榮光充滿全地！

4因呼喊者的聲音，門檻的根基震動，殿充滿了煙雲。

5那時我說：「禍哉！我滅亡了！因為我是嘴唇不潔的人，又住在嘴唇不潔的民中，又因我眼見大君王－萬軍之耶和華。」

6有一撒拉弗飛到我跟前，手裏拿着紅炭，是用火剪從壇上取下來的，

7將炭沾我的口，說：「看哪，這炭沾了你的嘴，你的罪孽便除掉，你的罪惡就赦免了。」

8我又聽見主的聲音說：「我可以差遣誰呢？誰肯為我們去呢？」我說：「我在這裏，請差遣我！」

9他說：「你去告訴這百姓說：你們聽是要聽見，卻不明白； 看是要看見，卻不曉得。

10要使這百姓心蒙脂油， 耳朵發沉， 眼睛昏迷； 恐怕眼睛看見， 耳朵聽見， 心裏明白， 回轉過來，便得醫治。」

11我就說：「主啊，這到幾時為止呢？」他說：直到城邑荒涼，無人居住， 房屋空閒無人，地土極其荒涼。

12並且耶和華將人遷到遠方， 在這境內撇下的地土很多。

13境內剩下的人若還有十分之一， 也必被吞滅， 像栗樹、橡樹雖被砍伐， 樹墩子卻仍存留。 這聖潔的種類在國中也是如此。