I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
Then I said, “Here I am.
Send me!”
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand.
You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ Make the heart of this people fat.
Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,