Isaiah 6:9-13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand.’^(A)
10 Make the mind of this people dull,
    and stop their ears,
    and shut their eyes,
so that they may not look with their eyes
    and listen with their ears
and comprehend with their minds
    and turn and be healed.”^(B)
11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said,
“Until cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is utterly desolate;^(C)
12 until the Lord sends everyone far away,
    and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.^(D)
13 Even if a tenth part remain in it,
    it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
    whose stump remains standing
    when it is felled.”^[a]
(The holy seed is its stump.)^(E)