3. Each creature was calling to the others:“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord All-Powerful.His glory fills the whole earth.”
4. Their calling caused the frame around the door to shake, as the Temple filled with smoke.
5. 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 All-Powerful.”
6. One of the heavenly creatures used a pair of tongs to take a hot coal from the altar. Then he flew to me with the hot coal in his hand.
7. The creature touched my mouth with the hot coal and said, “Look, your guilt is taken away, because this hot coal has touched your lips. Your sin is taken away.”
8. Then I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom can I send? Who will go for us?”So I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
9. Then the Lord said, “Go and tell this to the people:‘You will listen and listen, but you will not understand.You will look and look, but you will not learn.’
10. Make the minds of these people dumb.Shut their ears. Cover their eyes.Otherwise, they might really understandwhat they see with their eyesand hear with their ears.They might really understand in their mindsand come back to me and be healed.”