Isaiah sees the Lord-Isaiah's sins are forgiven-He is called to prophesy-He prophesies of the rejection by the Jews of Christ's teachings-A remnant shall return-Compare Isaiah 6. Between 559 and 545 B.C.

  1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

  2 Above it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

  3 And one cried unto 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 moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

  5 Then said I: Wo is unto 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 mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.

  6 Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;

  7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said: Lo, this has touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy 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-Hear ye indeed, but they understood not; and see ye indeed, but they perceived not.

  10 Make the heart of this people fat, 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 be healed.

  11 Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;

  12 And the Lord have removed men far away, for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

  13 But yet there shall be a tenth, and they shall return, and shall be eaten, as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.