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Isaiah 6
Dated to the year King Uzziah died, this is Isaiah's call vision: the LORD enthroned in the temple, seraphim crying "Holy, holy, holy," and the prophet crushed by his own "unclean lips." A coal from the altar burns the guilt away, and Isaiah volunteers before he knows the assignment. Watch the reversal in the commission itself: the message is meant to dull hearts and shut eyes (v.10), and the only answer to "how long?" is ruin down to a tenth. The stump that remains is called holy seed.
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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
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Above 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.
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One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
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The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
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Then 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!”
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Then 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.
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He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
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I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
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He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
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Make 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.”
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Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
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and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.
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If 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.”
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EN el año que murió el rey Uzzías vi yo al Señor sentado sobre un trono alto y sublime, y sus faldas henchían el templo.
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Y encima de él estaban serafines: cada uno tenía seis alas; con dos cubrían sus rostros, y con dos cubrían sus pies, y con dos volaban.
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Y el uno al otro daba voces, diciendo: Santo, santo, santo, Jehová de los ejércitos: toda la tierra está llena de su gloria.
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Y los quiciales de las puertas se estremecieron con la voz del que clamaba, y la casa se hinchió de humo.
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Entonces dije: ¡Ay de mí! que soy muerto; que siendo hombre inmundo de labios, y habitando en medio de pueblo que tiene labios inmundos, han visto mis ojos al Rey, Jehová de los ejércitos.
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Y voló hacia mí uno de los serafines, teniendo en su mano un carbón encendido, tomado del altar con unas tenazas:
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Y tocando con él sobre mi boca, dijo: He aquí que esto tocó tus labios, y es quitada tu culpa, y limpio tu pecado.
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Después oí la voz del Señor, que decía: ¿A quién enviaré, y quién nos irá? Entonces respondí yo: Heme aquí, envíame á mí.
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Y dijo: Anda, y di á este pueblo: Oid bien, y no entendáis; ved por cierto, mas no comprendáis.
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Engruesa el corazón de aqueste pueblo, y agrava sus oídos, y ciega sus ojos; porque no vea con sus ojos, ni oiga con sus oídos, ni su corazón entienda, ni se convierta, y haya para él sanidad.
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Y yo dije: ¿Hasta cuándo, Señor? Y respondió él: Hasta que las ciudades estén asoladas, y sin morador, ni hombre en las casas, y la tierra sea tornada en desierto;
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Hasta que Jehová hubiere echado lejos los hombres, y multiplicare en medio de la tierra la desamparada.
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Pues aun quedará en ella una décima parte, y volverá, bien que habrá sido asolada: como el olmo y como el alcornoque, de los cuales en la tala queda el tronco, así será el tronco de ella la simiente santa.
A commission to harden
The strangeness is that Isaiah is sent to make hearing useless: "You hear indeed, but don't understand" (v.9). His preaching will confirm a verdict already reached, not avert it.
Yet verse 13 refuses pure despair. After the felling, a stump survives, and the burned terebinth holds living seed, the thread Isaiah will pull through the chapters that follow.
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