What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, as it is written:

‘God gave them a spirit of stupor,
    eyes that could not see
    and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.’[a]

And David says:

‘May their table become a snare and a trap,
    a stumbling-block and a retribution for them.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:8 Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10