What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for,(A) but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,(B) as it is written,

God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.[a](C)

And David says,

Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and their backs be bent continually.[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:8 Dt 29:4; Is 29:10
  2. 11:9–10 Ps 69:22–23

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