Isaiah 6:1-8

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Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

6 In the year that ^(A)King Uzziah died I ^(B)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train^[a] of his robe filled the temple. ²Above him stood the seraphim. Each had ^(C)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³And one called to another and said:

^(D)“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
^(E)the whole earth is full of his glory!”^[b]

⁴And ^(F)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and ^(G)the house was filled with smoke. ⁵And I said: “Woe is me! ^(H)For I am lost; ^(I)for 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 ^(J)King, the Lord of hosts!”

⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷And he ^(K)touched 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

⁸And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for ^(L)us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

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Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth

Isaiah 52:7-53:12

English Standard Version

⁷^(A)How beautiful upon the mountains
    are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, ^(B)who brings good news of happiness,
    who publishes salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
⁸The voice of ^(C)your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
    together they sing for joy;
^(D)for eye to eye they see
    the return of the Lord to Zion.
⁹^(E)Break forth together into singing,
    ^(F)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for ^(G)the Lord has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰^(H)The Lord has bared his holy arm
    before the eyes of all the nations,
^(I)and all the ends of the earth shall see
    the salvation of our God.

¹¹^(J)Depart, depart, go out from there;
    touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
    ^(K)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
¹²For you shall not ^(L)go out in haste,
    and you shall not go in flight,
^(M)for the Lord will go before you,
    ^(N)and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

¹³Behold, ^(O)my servant shall act wisely;^[a]
    he shall be high and lifted up,
    and shall be exalted.
¹⁴As many were astonished at you—
    ^(P)his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
¹⁵so ^(Q)shall he sprinkle^[b] many nations.
    ^(R)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
^(S)for that which has not been told them they see,
    and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 ^(T)Who has believed what he has heard from us?^[c]
    And to whom has ^(U)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    ^(V)and like a root out of dry ground;
^(W)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
³^(X)He was despised and rejected^[d] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[e] and acquainted with^[f] grief;^[g]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[h]
    he was despised, and ^(Y)we esteemed him not.

⁴^(Z)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    ^(AA)smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵^(AB)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    ^(AC)and with his wounds we are healed.
⁶^(AD)All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^(AE)and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    ^(AF)yet he opened not his mouth;
^(AG)like a ^(AH)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he opened not his mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
    and as for his generation, ^(AI)who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people?
⁹And they made his grave with the wicked
    ^(AJ)and with a rich man in his death,
although ^(AK)he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet ^(AL)it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
    he has put him to grief;^[i]
^(AM)when his soul makes^[j] an offering for guilt,
    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^(AN)the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
¹¹Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see^[k] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^(AO)the righteous one, my servant,
    ^(AP)make many to be accounted righteous,
    ^(AQ)and he shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(AR)Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,^[l]
    ^(AS)and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,^[m]
because he poured out his soul to death
    and was numbered with the transgressors;
^(AT)yet he bore the sin of many,
    and makes intercession for the transgressors.