He said,
Go, and say to this people:
‘Keep listening, but don’t understand,
keep looking, but don’t acknowledge.’
Fatten this people’s mind,
make its ears heavy, smear its eyes,
So it doesn’t see with its eyes and listen with its ears,
and its mind understands
and it turns and there is healing for it.
I said, ‘For how long, Lord?’ He said,
‘Until towns have crashed into ruins,
so that there is no inhabitant,
And houses so that there are no people,
and the land crashes into ruins, a desolation.’
Yahweh will send the people away;
vast will be the abandonment in the middle of the country.
When there is still a tenth in it,
it will again be for burning up.
But like a terebinth or like an oak
of which there’s a stump after their felling,
the sacred seed will be its stump.
Goldingay, John;The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.