With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Sitting

Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

And Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;

Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.

"As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.

Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

"Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

High

And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!

Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high,

that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Filled

And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,

and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

General references

And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:

A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.