Chapter 6

The Prophet after a glorious vision ℣.5 lamenteth his former silence; ℣.6 his lips being purified by an Angel with a hot coal, ℣.8 he is willingly sent, & so prophesieth that the people's heart will be hardened; their cities shall be destroyed, but good relics shall be conserved.

1. 1

   In the year that king Ozias died, I saw our Lord sitting upon an high throne and elevated: and those things that were under him filled the temple.

2. 2

   Seraphims stood upon the same: six wings to one, and six wings to the other: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew.

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   And they cried one to an other, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.

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   And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, & the house was filled with smoke.

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   And I said: Woe is me because I have held my peace, because I am a man of polluted lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath polluted lips, and the King the Lord of hosts I have seen with mine eyes.

6. 6

   And one of the Seraphims flew to me, & in his hand an hot coal, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

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   And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity shall be taken away, & thy sin shall be cleansed.

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   And I heard the voice of our Lord saying: Whom shall I send? And who shall go for us? And I said: Lo I am here, send me.

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   And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hear ye that hear, and understand not: and see the vision, & know it not.

10. 10

    Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest perhaps they may see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.

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    And I said: How long Lord? And he said: Until the cities be made desolate without inhabiter, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desert.

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    And our Lord shall make men go far off, and he shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.

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    And yet there shall be tithing in it, and she shall be converted, and shall be to the shew as a terebinth, and as an oak, that spreadeth his boughs: that which shall stand in it, shall be an holy seed.