Then said I, Lord, how long?
&c.] That is, how long will this blindness, hardness,
stupidity, and impenitence, remain with this people, or they be
under such a sore judgment of God upon them: and he
answered, until the cities be wasted without
inhabitant,
and the houses without man, and the land be utterly
desolate;
until there is not an inhabitant in the cities of Judea, nor in
Jerusalem, the metropolis of the land, nor a single man in any
house in them; which denotes the utter desolation of the land and
city; and can refer to no other than to the desolation thereof by
the Romans; and till that time the blindness which happened to
them continued; the things which belonged to their peace were hid
from their eyes till their city was destroyed, and not one stone
left upon another, ( Luke
19:42-44 ) till that time, and even to this day, the veil of
blindness, ignorance, and and penitence, is on their hearts, and
will remain until they are converted to the Lord, in the latter
day; see ( Romans 11:25
Romans
11:26 ) (
2 Corinthians 3:14-16 ) .
Isaiah 6:11
