7 And he laid it on my mouth, and said, “This has touched your lips, and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.”
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 He said, “Go, and tell this people:‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 Make the heart of this people dull,and their ears heavy,and shut their eyes;lest they see with their eyes,and hear with their ears,and understand with their heart,and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”And He answered: “Until the cities are laid wastewithout inhabitants,and the houses without man,and the land is utterly desolate,
12 and the Lord has removed men far away,and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth,and it shall return, and shall be burned,as a terebinth tree or as an oak,whose stump remains when it is cut down,so the holy seed is its stump.”