Isaiah 6:8–13

Isaiah’s Commission

8 Then I heard the avoice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then bI said, “Here am I. Send me!”

9 He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on alistening, but do not perceive;

Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

10 “aRender the hearts of this people 1binsensitive,

Their ears 2dull,

And their eyes 3dim,

cOtherwise they might see with their eyes,

Hear with their ears,

Understand with their hearts,

And return and be healed.”

11 Then I said, “Lord, ahow long?” And He answered,

“Until bcities are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people

And the land is utterly desolate,

12 “The Lord has aremoved men far away,

And the 1bforsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13 “Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,

And it will again be subject to burning,

Like a terebinth or an aoak

Whose stump remains when it is felled.

The bholy seed is its stump.”