>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/16?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#0ce10::c0ce10) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Isaiah, as a prophet in ancient Israel, describes his visionary experience in the temple, addressing the people of Judah in a time of spiritual decline and impending judgment. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>Isaiah sees God sitting on a throne with flying angels singing about how holy He is. God cleans Isaiah's lips with a hot coal so he can go tell people important messages from God. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Isaiah experiences a vision of the Lord enthroned in glory, surrounded by seraphim proclaiming His holiness, prompting Isaiah to recognize his own unworthiness until a seraph cleanses his lips with a coal from the altar [[2 Nephi 16#1|v1-7 — 'vision of divine throne and personal cleansing']]. The Lord then commissions Isaiah to prophesy to a people who will hear but not understand, see but not perceive, leading to desolation yet with a promise of a holy seed remaining as a remnant [[2 Nephi 16#8|v8-13 — 'prophetic call and message of judgment with hope']][[2 Nephi 16#9|]][[2 Nephi 16#10|]][[2 Nephi 16#11|]][[2 Nephi 16#12|]][[2 Nephi 16#13|]]. This chapter emphasizes themes of divine holiness, prophetic calling, human sinfulness, and eventual restoration amid judgment. > >#Gospel/Prophets #Gospel/Cleansing #Gospel/Judgment ###### 1 1 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 2 Above it stood the seraphim; 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 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 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. ###### 5 5 Then said I: Wo is unto 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 6 Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; ###### 7 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said: Lo, this has touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. ###### 8 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I; send me. ###### 9 9 And he said: Go and tell this people--Hear ye indeed, but they understood not; and see ye indeed, but they perceived not. ###### 10 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 be converted and be healed. ###### 11 11 Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate; ###### 12 12 And the Lord have removed men far away, for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. ###### 13 13 But yet there shall be a tenth, and they 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.