Isa 6, Isa 53 | ESV | STEP | In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne , high and lifted up ; and the train of his robe filled the temple .

1 In the year that ^aKing Uzziah died I ^bsaw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train ^{▼▼Or hem} of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had ^dsix wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:

^e“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
^fthe whole earth is full of his glory!” ^{▼▼Or may his glory fill the whole earth}
4 And ^hthe foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and ⁱthe house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! ^jFor I am lost; ^kfor 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 ^lKing, the Lord of hosts!”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he ^mtouched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Isaiah’s Commission from the Lord

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for ⁿus?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

^o“‘Keep on hearing, ^{▼▼Or Hear indeed} but do not understand;
keep on seeing, ^{▼▼Or see indeed} but do not perceive.’
10 ^rMake the heart of this people ^sdull, ^{▼▼Hebrew fat}
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
^ulest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, ^v“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until ^wcities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 ^xAnd though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned ^{▼▼Or purged} again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump ^zremains
when it is felled.”
^aaThe holy seed ^{▼▼Or offspring} is its stump.

Isaiah 53

1 ^acWho has believed what he has heard from us? ^{▼▼Or Who has believed what we have heard?}
And to whom has ^aethe arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
^afand like a root out of dry ground;
^aghe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 ^ahHe was despised and rejected ^{▼▼Or forsaken} by men,
a man of sorrows, ^{▼▼Or pains; also verse 4} and acquainted with ^{▼▼Or and knowing} grief; ^{▼▼Or sickness; also verse 4}
and as one from whom men hide their faces ^{▼▼Or as one who hides his face from us}
he was despised, and ^anwe esteemed him not.
4 ^aoSurely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
^apsmitten by God, and afflicted.
5 ^aqBut he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
^arand with his wounds we are healed.
6 ^asAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^atand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
^auyet he opened not his mouth;
^avlike a ^awlamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, ^axwho considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
^ayand with a rich man in his death,
although ^azhe had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet ^bait was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief; ^{▼▼Or he has made him sick}
^bcwhen his soul makes ^{▼▼Or when you make his soul} an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^bethe will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light} and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^bgthe righteous one, my servant,
^bhmake many to be accounted righteous,
^biand he shall bear their iniquities.
12 ^bjTherefore I will divide him a portion with the many, ^{▼▼Or with the great}
^bland he shall divide the spoil with the strong, ^{▼▼Or with the numerous}
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
^bnyet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.