Isaiah 6:8-13 - Isaiah's Commission From The Lord
8 Then heard I the voice of My Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said - Here am I - send me.
9 Then said be - Go and say unto this people, - Hear on but do not discern, See on but do not perceive: 10 Stupefy thou the heart of this people, And their ears, make thou heavy, And their eyes, overspread, - Lest they see with their eyes And with their ears, should hear, And their heart should discern and come back. And they be healed.
11 Then said I - How long, My Lord? And he said - Until the time that Cities be wasted through having no inhabitant And houses - through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation; 12 And Yahweh have far removed men, - And great! be the abandonment in the midst of the land. 13 Yet still shall there be in it a tenth, Though it again be consumed, - Like an oak and like a terebinth Which when felled, have a stock in them, A holy seed, shall be the stock thereof. Courage.