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Isaiah 6:1-7
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. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."
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The chorus of the angels is interesting; "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!" I've heard that this is a convention in the Hebrew language for superlatives. If you want to say that something is, for example, "the best pie", in Hebrew you might say the pie is "delicious, delicious, delicious".
The most astounding thing is Isaiah's reaction to his vision of God. "Woe is me!", he yells. In the Bible, "Woe..." is how a curse is pronounced. Isaiah curses himself, "For I am lost;.." he says. Some translations render this, "For I am undone;..." Can you imagine that? Can you imagine seeing something, or someone, so astounding, so amazing, so pure and bright and powerful, that you wish you were cursed rather than look on it any more?
It reminds me of Revelation 6:15-17, when Judgement begins;
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Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 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, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"
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"...hide us from the face of him..." Incredible. Again, I ask myself, can you even imagine someone so terrifing, awe-inspiring, and powerful that you would rather die than face them? Rather have a mountian dropped on you than have Him look into your eyes? "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts..."