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The Prophecy
of Isaias 6
In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting
upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled
the temple.
Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings,
and the other had six wings: with two they covered his
face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two
they hew.
And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy,
holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of
his glory.
And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice
of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have
seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.
And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand
was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off
the altar.
And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath
touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken
away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.
And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall
I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here
am I, send me.
And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people:
Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision,
and know it not.
Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their
eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with
their heart, and be converted and I heal them.
And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses
without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall
be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.
And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she
shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine
tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that
which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed. |