10. Then he said to me, “Make the minds of these people dull, their ears deaf, and their eyes blind, so that they cannot see or hear or understand. If they did, they might turn to me and be healed.”
11. I asked, “How long will it be like this, Lord?”He answered, “Until the cities are ruined and empty — until the houses are uninhabited — until the land itself is a desolate waste.
12. I will send the people far away and make the whole land desolate.