Isaiah 6:9-13

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;^(A)
keep looking, but do not perceive.
¹⁰ Dull the minds^[a] of these people;
deafen their ears and blind their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back, and be healed.^(B)

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,^(D)
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
¹² and the Lord drives the people far away,
leaving great emptiness in the land.
¹³ Though a tenth will remain in the land,
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed^(E) is the stump.^(F)