8. Then I heard the Lord’s voice saying, "Whom should I send, and who will go for us?"I said, "I’m here; send me."
9. God said, "Go and say to this people:Listen intently, but don’t understand;look carefully, but don’t comprehend.
10. Make the minds of this people dull.Make their ears deaf and their eyes blind,so they can’t see with their eyesor hear with their ears,or understand with their minds,and turn, and be healed."
11. I said, "How long, Lord?"And God said, "Until cities lie ruined with no one living in them, until there are houses without people and the land is left devastated."
12. The Lord will send the people far away, and the land will be completely abandoned.
13. Even if one-tenth remain there, they will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, which when it is cut down leaves a stump. Its stump is a holy seed.