And David says,

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
    and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see,
    and cause their backs to bend continually[a].”[b]

11 I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they?[c] May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:10 Literally “throughout everything”
  2. Romans 11:10 A quotation from Ps 69:22–23
  3. Romans 11:11 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
  4. Romans 11:11 *The words “to jealousy” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied for clarity