"'Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’Make the heart of this people dull,and their ears heavy,and blind their eyes;lest they see with their eyes,and hear with their ears,and understand with their hearts,and turn and be healed."Then I said, "How long, O Lord?"And he said:"Until cities lie waste without inhabitant,and houses without people,and the land is a desolate waste,and the Lord removes people far away,and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.And though a tenth remain in it,it will be burned again,like a terebinth or an oak,whose stump remainswhen it is felled."The holy seed is its stump.Isaiah 6:9b-13
