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"Render the hearts of thispeopleinsensitive, Their earsdull, And their eyesdim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."
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Then I said, "Lord, howlong*?" And He answered, "Until**cities are devastated and withoutinhabitant, Houses are withoutpeople And the land is utterlydesolate,
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"Yet there will be a tenthportion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an oakWhosestump remains when it is felled. The holyseed is its stump."