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Then he touched my mouth with the hot coal and said, “When this hot coal touched your lips, your guilt was taken away, and your sins were erased.[a]

Then I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Who can I send? Who will go for us?”

So I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Then the Lord said, “Go and tell the people, ‘Listen closely, but don’t understand. Look closely, but don’t learn.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 6:7 erased Or “atoned” or “covered over.”

With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(A) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(B)

Then I heard the voice(C) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(D) And who will go for us?(E)

And I said, “Here am I.(F) Send me!”

He said, “Go(G) and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(H)

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