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Isaiah 6:9-13 (Listen)

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9 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.