Isaiah 6:11

Lord, how long? The prophet feels that in the divine counsels there must be a limit to this process of judicial hardening, that it must reach a crisis with a day of hope beyond it. But the answer is "Not till the existing Israel has been annihilated."

Until the cities … without man (Omit the.) Cf. ch. Isaiah 5:9.

and the land be utterly desolate lit. "be wasted to desolation." LXX., changing a letter, reads "and the land be left a desolation."