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The seraph[a] touched my mouth with it and said: ‘Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.’ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’ And he said, ‘Go and say to this people:

“Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand.”

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  1. Isaiah 6:7 Heb He

With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(A) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(B)

Then I heard the voice(C) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(D) And who will go for us?(E)

And I said, “Here am I.(F) Send me!”

He said, “Go(G) and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(H)

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