Isaiah 6:11-13

New International Reader's Version

“It will last until the cities of Israel are destroyed.
    It will last until no one is living in them.
It will last until the houses are deserted.
    The fields will be completely destroyed.
¹² It will last until the Lord has sent everyone far away.
    The land will be totally deserted.
¹³ Suppose only a tenth of the people remain there.
    Even then the land will be completely destroyed again.
But when oak trees and terebinth trees
    are cut down, stumps are left.
And my holy people will be like stumps
    that begin to grow again.”