Isaiah 6:1
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JPS
| 6:1
| In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
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TJBU
| 6:1
| In the year in which King Uzziah was smitten with the leprosy the prophet said, I saw the glory of the Lord sitting upon His throne, high, and lifted up unto the highest heavens, and the temple was filled with the brightness of His glory.
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Isaiah 6:2
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JPS
| 6:2
| Above Him 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.
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TJBU
| 6:2
| Holy ministers on high stood before him: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, that it should not see; and with twain he covered his body, that it should not be seen; and with twain he was ministering.
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Isaiah 6:3
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JPS
| 6:3
| And one called unto another, and said:
Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory.
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TJBU
| 6:3
| And one cried unto another, and they were saying, Holy in the highest and exalted heavens is the house of His Shekinah, holy upon the earth is the work of His might, holy for ever, world without end, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of the brightness of His glory.
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Isaiah 6:4
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JPS
| 6:4
| And the posts of the door were moved at the voice of them that called, and the house was filled with smoke.
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TJBU
| 6:4
| And the posts of the threshold of the temple moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house of the sanctuary was filled with cloudy darkness.
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Isaiah 6:5
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JPS
| 6:5
| Then said I:
Woe is 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.
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TJBU
| 6:5
| Then said I, Woe is me, for I have sinned, for I am a guilty man to reprove, and I dwell in the midst of a people polluted with sin: for mine eyes have seen the glory of the Shekinah of the King of the worlds, the Lord of hosts.
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Isaiah 6:6
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JPS
| 6:6
| Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
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TJBU
| 6:6
| Then flew one of the ministers unto me, and in his mouth was a word, which he received from the Shekinah of Him who sat upon the throne of glory in the highest heavens, above the altar.
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Isaiah 6:7
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JPS
| 6:7
| and he touched my mouth with it, and said:
Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
And thine iniquity is taken away,
And thy sin expiated.
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TJBU
| 6:7
| And he placed it in my mouth, and said, Behold, I have put the words of my prophecies in thy mouth, and thy iniquities are put away, and thy sins are expiated.
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Isaiah 6:8
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JPS
| 6:8
| And 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.'
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TJBU
| 6:8
| And I heard the voice of the Word of the Lord, which said, Whom shall I send to prophesy? and who will go to teach? Then said I, Here am I, send me.
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Isaiah 6:9
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JPS
| 6:9
| And He said: 'Go, and tell this people:
Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
And see ye indeed, but perceive not.
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TJBU
| 6:9
| And He said, Go, and tell this people, who are diligently hearing, but understand not, and see diligently, but know not.
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Isaiah 6:10
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JPS
| 6:10
| Make the heart of this people fat,
And make their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
Lest they, seeing with their eyes,
And hearing with their ears,
And understanding with their heart,
Return, and be healed.'
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TJBU
| 6:10
| Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and darken their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and repent, and it shall be forgiven them.
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Isaiah 6:11
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JPS
| 6:11
| Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered:
'Until cities be waste without inhabitant,
And houses without man,
And the land become utterly waste,
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TJBU
| 6:11
| Then said I, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities be wasted without an inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be laid desolate and wasted.
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Isaiah 6:12
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JPS
| 6:12
| And the LORD have removed men far away,
And the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.
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TJBU
| 6:12
| And the Lord have removed the children of men far away, and the desolation be great in the midst of the land.
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Isaiah 6:13
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JPS
| 6:13
| And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be eaten up; as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the stock thereof.'
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TJBU
| 6:13
| And there shall be left in it righteous men, one out of ten: they shall return, and they shall be for poverty, as the terebynth and the oak when their leaves fall, they are like to dry trees, never theless, they are moist to raise up seed from them; thus the captivity of Israel shall be gathered, and shall return to their land, for the seed which is holy is their plantation.
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