Romans 11:10

Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back always be bowed down.”

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

In Context

9And David says: “Let their table be made into a snare and into a trap, into a stumbling block and into a retribution to them.

11So now I say, surely they have not stumbled so as to fall [and stay fallen]? Of course not! Rather, through their transgression the salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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Cross References

Romans 1:21precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks; so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Ephesians 4:18having been darkened in their understanding, being alienated [as a continuing condition] from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts,

2 Peter 2:17These are waterless springs, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackest of the darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:13they are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shameful acts; they are wandering stars, for whom the black of the darkness has been reserved forever.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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