Isaiah 6:10-13 English Standard Version
10 Make the heart of this people dull,[fat] and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned[purged] again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed[offspring] is its stump.
This section of Isaiah 6 is entitled Isaiah’s commission from the Lord. These words are only the leading edge of his commission and is not the whole commission. It is a preamble. It sets the conditions that must be met before any meaning can be obtained for the reader.
Isaiah 7:8-9 English Standard Version
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’”
What is a commission without timing? What is spoken has a relationship in time so that those involved might see what is being done in their presence.
Isaiah 7:13-14 English Standard Version
13 And he[Isaiah] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.[God with us]
They did not hear, nor did they see, but we see.