# Isaiah 6

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. [2] Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. [3] And they were calling out to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts;
all the earth is full of His glory.” [4] At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke. [5] Then I said:
“Woe is me,
for I am ruined,
because I am a man of unclean lips
dwelling among 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, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. [7] And with it he touched my mouth and said:
“Now that this has touched your lips,
your iniquity is removed
and your sin is atoned for.” [8] Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:
“Whom shall I send?
Who will go for Us?” And I said:
“Here am I. Send me!” [9] And He replied:
“Go and tell this people,
‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ [10] Make the hearts of this people calloused;
deafen their ears and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.” [11] Then I asked:
“How long, O Lord?” And He replied:
“Until the cities lie ruined
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left unoccupied
and the land is desolate and ravaged, [12] until the LORD has driven men far away
and the land is utterly forsaken. [13] And though a tenth remains in the land,
it will be burned again.
As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled,
so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

## When

- c. 740 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Isaiah 6:1 dates the vision by the year that King Uzziah died, dated to around 740 BC by the chronology of the kings of Judah.

## Who ruled

- **Uzziah**, king of Judah, 792-740 BC, named in the text · Source: 2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26; Isaiah 6:1, which dates the vision by the year of his death
- **Tiglath-pileser III**, king of Assyria, 745-727 BC · Source: Assyrian annals from Calah; the Assyrian king lists, which are dated year by year

## Each verse

- Isaiah 6:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/1
- Isaiah 6:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/2
- Isaiah 6:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/3
- Isaiah 6:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/4
- Isaiah 6:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/5
- Isaiah 6:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/6
- Isaiah 6:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/7
- Isaiah 6:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/8
- Isaiah 6:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/9
- Isaiah 6:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/10
- Isaiah 6:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/11
- Isaiah 6:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/12
- Isaiah 6:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/13