Romans 11:10

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let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:23 : 23 May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you,‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”
  • Isa 65:12 : 12 I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me.”
  • Zech 11:17 : 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!”
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
  • Rom 11:8 : 8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
  • 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
  • Deut 28:64-68 : 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 67 In the morning you will say,‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say,‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 68 Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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  • Rom 11:8-9
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    85%

    8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

    9And David says,“Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

  • Ps 69:22-25
    4 verses
    84%

    22May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

    23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!

    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

    25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

  • Ps 17:11
    77%

    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Rom 11:11
    75%

    11I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

  • John 12:40
    74%

    40“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!

    10May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • Ps 35:6
    74%

    6May their path be dark and slippery, as the LORD’s angel chases them!

  • Ps 5:10
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    10Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Isa 44:18
    73%

    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Ps 109:10
    73%

    10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

  • Isa 6:10
    73%

    10Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

  • Lam 3:65
    72%

    65Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!

  • Mark 4:12
    72%

    12so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Ps 10:10-11
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    72%

    10His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.

    11He says to himself,“God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.”

  • Ps 69:27
    72%

    27Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them!

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    71%

    11Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

    12For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

  • Ps 64:8
    71%

    8Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,

  • Ps 40:14
    71%

    14May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

  • Ps 129:3
    71%

    3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

  • Ps 70:2-3
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    71%

    2May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

    3May those who say,“Aha! Aha!” be driven back and disgraced!

  • Isa 8:22
    71%

    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

  • Job 5:14
    71%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Ps 83:17
    71%

    17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

  • Job 17:4
    71%

    4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

  • Rom 3:18
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    18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

  • 2 Cor 3:14
    71%

    14But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.

  • Eph 4:18
    71%

    18They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  • 1 Thess 2:16
    70%

    16because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

  • Job 40:13
    70%

    13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

  • Job 3:5
    70%

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

  • Job 38:15
    70%

    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

  • Ps 129:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!

    6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

  • Ps 35:8
    70%

    8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • Ps 109:15
    70%

    15May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Jer 18:23
    70%

    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

  • Ps 73:7
    70%

    7Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

  • Ps 57:6
    70%

    6They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)

  • Ps 35:25
    70%

    25Do not let them say to themselves,“Aha! We have what we wanted!” Do not let them say,“We have devoured him!”