Romans 11:10

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and let their back, at all times, be bowed down.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9And again, David said: Let their table become a snare before them; and let their recompense be a stumbling block.

11But I say: Have they so stumbled as to fall entirely? Far be it. Rather, by their stumbling, life hath come to the Gentiles, for awakening their jealousy.

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Cross References

Romans 1:21because they knew God, and did not glorify him and give thanks to him as God, but became vain in their imaginings, and their unwise heart was darkened.

Ephesians 4:18and they are dark in their understandings, and are alienated from the life of God, because there is not in them knowledge, and because of the blindness of their heart.

2 Peter 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness.

Jude 1:13raging waves of the sea, which, by their foam, manifest their confusion; shootingstars, for which is reserved the blackness of darkness 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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