1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. 3 One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!” 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.” 8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!” 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ 10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.” 11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste, 12 and Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land. 13 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the holy seed is its stump.”
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Uzziah
A strong, mostly faithful king whose pride in the temple brought him leprosy.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chron. 26; Isa. 6:1; Matt. 1:8-9
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- 1 John 12:41; Revelation 15:8; Daniel 7:9; Psalm 113:5; Revelation 7:15–17
- 2 Revelation 4:8; Ezekiel 1:11; Psalm 103:20; Psalm 104:4; Isaiah 6:6
- 3 Revelation 4:8–9; Psalm 72:19; Numbers 14:21; Exodus 15:11; Ezra 3:11
- 4 Revelation 15:8; Revelation 11:19; 2 Chronicles 5:13–6:1; Exodus 40:34; 1 Kings 8:10–12
- 5 Luke 5:8–9; James 3:6–10; Jeremiah 9:3–8; Jeremiah 1:6; Matthew 12:34–37
- 6 Revelation 8:3–5; Hebrews 9:22–26; Ezekiel 10:2; Hebrews 13:10; Isaiah 6:2
- 7 Jeremiah 1:9; 1 John 1:7; Isaiah 43:25; Daniel 10:16; Matthew 9:2
- 8 Exodus 4:10–13; Acts 26:16–17; Ephesians 3:8; Acts 22:21; Isaiah 65:1
- 9 Matthew 13:14–15; Luke 8:10; Mark 4:12; John 12:40; Acts 28:26–27
- 10 Matthew 13:15; Acts 28:27; Jeremiah 5:21; Jeremiah 6:10; John 3:19–20
- 11 Psalm 94:3; Leviticus 26:31; Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 24:1–12
- 12 Jeremiah 4:29; Deuteronomy 28:64; Isaiah 26:15; Jeremiah 12:7; 2 Kings 25:21
- 13 Job 14:7–9; Romans 11:5–6; Genesis 22:18; Romans 11:16–29; Isaiah 65:8–9
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For the Scripture saith, "Ten thousand times ten thousand stood around Him, and thousands of thousands ministered unto Him, and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation is full of His glory." And let us therefore, conscientiously gathering together in harmony, cry to Him earnestly, as with one mouth, that we may be made partakers …
After this invisible manner, therefore, did they see God, as also Esaias says, "I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts," pointing out that man should behold God with his eyes, and hear His voice.
… that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded, according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of remorse, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
"For in them is fulfilled," saith He, "the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive." Seest thou the prophet likewise, accusing them with this same accuracy?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And this throne the Prophet Esaias having beheld before the incarnate coming of the Saviour, says, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the rest.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)