Romans 11:10

may their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and do you always make their backs to bend.’

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

9David, too, says – ‘May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them – a hindrance and a retribution;

11I ask then – ‘Was their stumbling to result in their fall?’ Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:23May their eyes be darkened and blind, make them shake without ceasing.

Romans 1:21because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.

Ephesians 4:18with their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.

2 Peter 2:17These people are like springs without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest darkness has been reserved.

Jude 1:13they are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are ‘wandering stars,’ for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever.

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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