Romans 11:10
Good News Translation
May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times."

New Revised Standard Version
let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent.”

Contemporary English Version
Blindfold their eyes! Don't let them see. Bend their backs beneath a burden that will never be lifted."

New American Bible
let their eyes grow dim so that they may not see, and keep their backs bent forever.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

their eyes.

Romans 11:8 As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.

Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

Zechariah 11:17 O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Ephesians 4:18 Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

2 Peter 2:4,17 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: . . .

Jude 1:6,13 And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day. . . .

and bow.

Deuteronomy 28:64-68 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. . . .

Isaiah 51:23 And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.

Isaiah 65:12 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me.

Context
The Remnant of Israel
9And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them. 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always. 11I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.…
Cross References
Psalm 69:22
Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

Psalm 69:23
Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

Romans 11:9
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