6Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 7and he touched my mouth with it, and said:
- Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
- And thine iniquity is taken away,
- And thy sin expiated.
8And 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.' 9And He said: 'Go, and tell this people:
- Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
- And see ye indeed, but perceive not.
- 10Make the heart of this people fat,
- And make their ears heavy,
- And shut their eyes;
- Lest they, seeing with their eyes,
- And hearing with their ears,
- And understanding with their heart,
- Return, and be healed.'
11Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered:
- 'Until cities be waste without inhabitant,
- And houses without man,
- And the land become utterly waste,
- 12And the Lord have removed men far away,
- And the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.
13And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be eaten up; as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the stock thereof.'
7And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it; but could not prevail against it. 2And it was told the house of David, saying: 'Aram is confederate with Ephraim.' And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.
3Then said the Lord unto Isaiah: 'Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and [1]Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fullers' field; 4and say unto him. Keep calm, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. 5Because Aram hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying: 6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7thus saith the Lord God:
- It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
- 8For the head of Aram is Damascus,
- And the head of Damascus is Rezin;
- And within threescore and five years
- Shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people;
- 9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
- And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.
- If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.'
10And the Lord spoke again unto Ahaz, saying: 11'Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.' 12But Ahaz said: 'I will not ask, neither
- ↑ That is, A remnant shall return.
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