2 ARST Above him were hovering several winged creatures. Each of them had six wings. They covered their faces with two of their wings, they covered their feet with two of their wings, and they flew using two of their wings. BSB BSB: 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.
4 ARST When they spoke, the sound of their cries caused the foundation beneath the doorposts of the temple to shake, and the temple was filled with smoke. BSB BSB: At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
6 ARST Then one of the winged creatures took a hot coal from the altar, using a pair of tongs. He flew to me BSB BSB: 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 ARST and touched my lips with the coal. Then he said,“Look, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is ended, and your sins are forgiven.” BSB BSB: 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 ARST Then I heard Yahweh asking,“Whom shall I send to be a messenger to my people? Who will go and speak for us?” I replied,“I am here. Send me!” BSB BSB: 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 ARST Then he said,“You will go and say to the people of Israel,‘Listen carefully to what I say, but you will not understand it. You will look very carefully, but you will not understand.’ BSB BSB: And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 ARST I will cause you people to be unable to care; and I will cause you people to not be able to hear, and I will cause you people to not be able to see. Otherwise you would see with your eyes and you would recognize what it is you are looking at, and you would hear with your ears and be able to understand what you have heard, and you would care deeply and with understanding, and you would turn to me so I might save you and not punish you.” BSB BSB: 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 ARST Then I said,“How long do you want me to continue to do that?” He replied,“Do it until their cities are ruined by their enemies, until no one is living in their houses, do it until all the crops are stolen from their fields and the fields are ruined. BSB BSB: 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 ARST Do it until Yahweh has exiled everyone far away, and the whole land of Israel is deserted. BSB BSB: until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
13 ARST If even one tenth of the people survive and stay there, their enemies will invade the land again and burn everything. But just like when they cut down an oak tree and leave a stump, and new shoots grow from that, the people who remain in this land will be a group that is set apart for me.” BSB BSB: 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.”
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