7
He touched my mouth [with it] and said: Now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, and your sin is atoned for.
Isaiah 6:7 In-Context
5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
6
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7
With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9
He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’