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.”
King James Version
Isaiah's commissioning to preach until total desolation, fulfilled in the Babylonian exile and the long Diaspora.
Fulfillment References
Luke 21:24 Matthew 23:38 Lamentations 1:1
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
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