Isaiah 6:13
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
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12And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.
Cross References
Genesis 22:18And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
Ezra 9:2For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
Job 14:7For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
Isaiah 4:3And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 10:22For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
Ezekiel 6:8But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 6:10-13
Judicial Blindness Threatened. ( b. c. 758.) 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 11 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… Read the whole commentary →