Isaiah 6:1
King James Version (KJV)
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Translations
Isaiah 6:1 - Amplified Bible
IN THE year that King Uzziah died, [in a vision] I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the skirts of His train filled the [most holy part of the] temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - American Standard Version
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.
Isaiah 6:1 - Bible in Basic English
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
Isaiah 6:1 - Darby Bible
In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - English Standard Version
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - King James Version
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - La Biblia de las Americas
En el año de la muerte del rey Uzìas vi yo al Señor sentado sobre un trono alto y sublime, y la orla de su manto llenaba el templo.
Isaiah 6:1 - The Message
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a throne—high, exalted!—and the train of his robes filled the Temple. Angel-seraphs hovered above him, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew. And they called back and forth one to the other,
Holy, Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
His bright glory fills the whole earth.
The foundations trembled at the sound of the angel voices, and then the whole house filled with smoke. I said, "Doom! It’s Doomsday!
I’m as good as dead!
Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—
blasphemous even!
And the people I live with talk the same way,
using words that corrupt and desecrate.
And here I’ve looked God in the face!
The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!"
Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with the coal and said, "Look. This coal has touched your lips.
Gone your guilt,
your sins wiped out."
And then I heard the voice of the Master:
"Whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?"
I spoke up,
"I’ll go.
Send me!"
Isaiah 6:1 - New American Standard Bible
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
En el año de la muerte del rey Uzìas vi yo al Señor sentado sobre un trono alto y sublime, y la orla de Su manto llenaba el templo.
Isaiah 6:1 - World English Bible
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - Young's Living Translation
In the year of the death of king Uzziah -- I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.
Isaiah 6:1 - Additional Comments
(6:1-13)
I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it.
I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started to go to school, my
classmates-who were constantly teasing- made it clear to me how I must look
to others: a little girl with a misshapen lip, crooked nose, lopsided
teeth, and hollow and somewhat garbled speech. I couldn't even blow up a
balloon without holding my nose, and when I bent to drink from a fountain,
the water spilled out of my nose.
When my schoolmates asked, "What happened to your lip?" I'd tell them
that I'd fallen as a baby and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow it
seemed more acceptable to have suffered an accident than to have been born
different. By the age of seven I was convinced that no one outside my own
family could ever love me. Or even like me.
And then I entered the second grade, and Mrs. Leonard's class.
I never knew what her first name was -- just Mrs. Leonard. She was
round and pretty and fragrant, with chubby arms and shining brown hair and
warm dark eyes that smiled even on the rare occasions when her mouth
didn't. Everyone adored her. But no one came to love her more than I did.
And for a special reason.
The time came for the annual "hearing tests" given at our school. I
was barely able to hear anything out of one ear, and was not about to
reveal yet another problem that would single me out as different. And so I
cheated.
I had learned to watch other children and raised my hand when they did
during group testing. The "whisper test" however, required a different
kind of deception: Each child would go to the door of the classroom, turn
sideways, close one ear with a finger, and the teacher would whisper
something from her desk, which the child would repeat. Then the same thing
was done for the other ear. I had discovered in kindergarten that nobody
checked to see how tightly the untested ear was being covered, so I merely
pretended to block mine.
As usual, I was last, but all through the testing I wondered what Mrs.
Leonard might say to me. I knew from previous years that she whispered
things like "The sky is blue" or "Do you have new shoes?"
My turn came up. I turned my bad ear to her plugging up the other
solidly with my finger, then gently backed my finger out enough to be able
to hear. I waited and then the words that God had surely put into her
mouth, seven words that changed my life forever.
Mrs. Leonard, the pretty, fragrant teacher I adored, said softly, "I
wish you were my little girl."
-- written by Mary Ann Bird, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
(The 2 key points - the teacher's positive affect from words well spoken, and that she is ministering in daily life. These are 2 main points in this lesson.)
Transition
That second grade teacher was involved in others' lives. Isaiah was involved in the lives of the people of Israel. Let's look at Isaiah's perspective on himself and others, as we consider our perspective on ourselves and others.
Ask: Can you recall an event in your life, something someone did or said, that may have been seemingly small, but had an impact on you? Even if it was not a big impact, but the fact that you still remember it is significant.
Why do you still remember it?
Describe: As you read the first 3 verses, ask the class to picture the scene. Add some of your own words to build the image in their minds. Point and wave your hands to help describe the scene.
Uzziah (or Azariah) was a king of Judah. He became king when he was 16 years old, and reigned for 52 years (2 Chr 26:3). He was a king who did what was right in God's eyes (2 Kings 15:34, 2 Chr 26:3-4). Because of his obedience to God, God prospered him, and he became powerful and famous (2 Chr 26:15). Yet, later in his life, he rebelled against God, and because of that became leprous, until he died (2 Chr 26:16-21).
Uzziah's son Jotham then became king. He was 25, and reigned for 16 years. He did what was right in the sight of God (2 Chr 27:1-2).
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