Exercise: CNC Group Class
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KING JAMES VERSION
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THE MSG
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Isaiah 6 (KJV)
6 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.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six
wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy, is the Lord of
hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice
of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having
a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo,
this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make
their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be
healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered,
Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man,
and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have
removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the
land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall
return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is
in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
thereof.
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Isaiah 6 (MSG)
Holy, Holy, Holy!
6 1-8 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!”
9-10 He said, “Go and tell this
people:
“‘Listen hard, but you aren’t going to
get it;
look hard, but you won’t catch on.’
Make these people blockheads,
with fingers in their ears and blindfolds on their eyes,
So they won’t see a thing,
won’t hear a word,
So they won’t have a clue about what’s
going on
and, yes, so they won’t turn around and be made whole.”
11-13 Astonished, I said,
“And Master, how long is this to go on?”
He said, “Until the cities are emptied
out,
not a soul left in the cities—
Houses empty of people,
countryside empty of people.
Until I, God, get rid of everyone,
sending them off,
the land totally empty.
And even if some should survive, say a
tenth,
the devastation will start up again.
The country will look like pine and
oak forest
with every tree cut down—
Every tree a stump, a huge field of
stumps.
But there’s a holy seed in those stumps.”
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