Isaiah 6:11-13
“Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”
King James Version · the opening — all 3 verses are below
More of Isaiah 6 on this siteIsaiah 6:9-10
Isaiah's commissioning to preach until total desolation, fulfilled in the Babylonian exile and the long Diaspora.
Read the whole passage — all 3 verses (KJV)
6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
6:12And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Fulfillment References
Luke 21:24 Matthew 23:38 Lamentations 1:1
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