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Isaiah 6 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

Isaiah Becomes a Prophet

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a very high throne. His long robe filled the Temple. Burning heavenly creatures stood above him. Each creature had six wings. They used two wings to cover their faces. They used two wings to cover their feet. And they used two wings for flying. Each creature was calling to the others:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven’s armies.
    His glory fills the whole earth.”

Their voices caused the frame around the door to shake. The Temple filled with smoke.

I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure. And I live among people who are not pure. But I have seen the King, the Lord of heaven’s armies.”

On the altar there was a fire. One of the burning heavenly creatures used a pair of tongs to take a hot coal from the fire. Then he flew to me with the hot coal in his hand. The creature touched my mouth with the hot coal. Then he said, “Look. Your guilt is taken away because this hot coal has touched your lips. Your sin is taken away.”

Then I heard the Lord’s voice. He said, “Whom can I send? Who will go for us?”



‘You will listen and listen, but you will not understand.
    You will look and look, but you will not learn.’
10 Make these people stubborn.
    Make them not able to understand what they hear and see.
Otherwise, they might really understand
    what they see with their eyes
    and hear with their ears.
They might really understand in their minds.
    If they did this, they would come back to me and be forgiven.”

11 Then I asked, “Lord, how long should I do this?”

He answered,

“Do this until the cities are destroyed
    and the people are gone.
Do this until there are no people left living in the houses.
    Do this until the land is destroyed and left empty.
12 I will send the people far away.
    And the land will be left empty.
13 One-tenth of the people will be left in the land.
    But the land will be destroyed again.
These people will be like an oak tree.
    When the tree is chopped down, a stump is left.
    The people who remain will be like a stump that will sprout again.”

International Children’s Bible (ICB)


Isaiah 6 New International Version (NIV)

Isaiah’s Commission


“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
    the whole earth is full of his glory.”






He said, “Go and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;
    make their ears dull
    and close their eyes.[a]
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”


And he answered:

“Until the cities lie ruined
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away
    and the land is utterly forsaken.
13 And though a tenth remains in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps when they are cut down,


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