Isaiah 6
New King James Version (NKJV)

Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet
6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the
Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of
His robe filled the temple. 2 Above
it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered
his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one
cried to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The
whole earth is full of His glory!”

4 And the posts of the door were
shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 So I said:

“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 my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of
hosts.”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in
his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the
altar.7 And he touched my mouth with
it, and said:

“Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And
your sin purged.”

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying:

“Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?”

Then I said, “Here am I! Send
me.”

9 And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

10 “Make the heart of this people
dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they
see with their eyes, And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.”

11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

“Until the cities are laid waste and without
inhabitant, The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate, 12 The Lord has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of
the land. 13 But yet a tenth will
be in it, And will return and be for
consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So the holy seed shall be its stump.”