Isaiah’s Commission from the Lord
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for See Gen. 1:26us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me." 9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people:
Cited Matt. 13:14,15;Acts 28:26,27;[Mark 4:12;Luke 8:10;Rom. 11:8]"‘Keep on hearing,6:9 Or Hear indeed but do not understand;
keep on seeing,6:9 Or see indeed but do not perceive.’
10 Cited John 12:40Make the heart of this people Ps. 119:70dull,6:10 Hebrew fat
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
[Jer. 5:21]lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed."
11 Then I said, Ps. 79:5;89:46"How long, O Lord?"
And he said:
"Until [ch. 1:7;27:10]cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 [ch. 10:22] And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned6:13 Or purged again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump [Job 14:7] remains
when it is felled."
Ezra 9:2The holy seed6:13 Or offspring is its stump.