Romans 11:10

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

1770 John Worsley NT

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 saith, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them.

11Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.

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Cross References

Romans 1:21so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened.

Ephesians 4:18in the vanity of their mind, darkened in their understanding, and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, by reason of the hardness of their heart:

2 Peter 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom thick darkness is reserved for ever.

Jude 1:13wandering stars, for whom blackness of darkness is 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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