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God Planned a Way to Recover Some Hardened Jews

What then? Israel did not receive what it was striving to get. The elect did, but the rest were hardened. Just as it is written:

God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear,
right up to the present day.[a]

And David says:

Let their table be a trap and a net,
and a snare and a retribution for them.

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

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
    eyes that could not see
    and ears that could not hear,(C)
to this very day.”[a](D)

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