Romans 11:10

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their backs forever.

Revised King James 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 a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a retribution to them:

11I say then, Have they stumbled to fall beyond recovery? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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Cross References

Romans 1:21Because, though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Ephesians 4:18Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts:

2 Peter 2:17These are wells without water, mists driven before a tempest; for whom the blackest darkness is reserved.

Jude 1:13Raging waves of the sea, flinging up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness is 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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