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8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” “Here I am,” I said; “send me!” 9 And he replied: Go and say to this people: Listen carefully, but do not understand! Look intently, but do not perceive! 10 Make the heart of this people sluggish, dull their ears and close their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and their heart understand, and they turn and be healed. 11 “How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste. 12 Until the LORD sends the people far away, and great is the desolation in the midst of the land. 13 If there remain a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. Holy offspring is the trunk. Isaiah 6:8-13, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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