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Isaiah 6:9-13 (Listen)

And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

d“‘Keep on hearing,1 but do not understand;

keep on seeing,2 but do not perceive.’

10 eMake the heart of this people fdull,3

and their ears heavy,

and blind their eyes;

glest they see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears,

and understand with their hearts,

and turn and be healed.”

11 Then I said, h“How long, O Lord?”

And he said:

“Until icities lie waste

without inhabitant,

and houses without people,

and the land is a desolate waste,

12 and the Lord removes people far away,

and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13 jAnd though a tenth remain in it,

it will be burned4 again,

like a terebinth or an oak,

whose stump kremains

when it is felled.”

lThe holy seed5 is its stump.

Footnotes

[1] 6:9 Or Hear indeed
[2] 6:9 Or see indeed
[3] 6:10 Hebrew fat
[4] 6:13 Or purged
[5] 6:13 Or offspring

Isaiah 53:1-3 (Listen)

53 gWho has believed what he has heard from us?1

And to whom has hthe arm of the Lord been revealed?

For he grew up before him like a young plant,

iand like a root out of dry ground;

jhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him.

kHe was despised and rejected2 by men;

a man of sorrows,3 and acquainted with4 grief;5

and as one from whom men hide their faces6

he was despised, and lwe esteemed him not.

Footnotes

[1] 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
[2] 53:3 Or forsaken
[3] 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
[4] 53:3 Or and knowing
[5] 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
[6] 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us