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7 What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.
8 The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."
9 And David said, "Let their feasting prove a snare and a trap to them, Their ruin and their retribution.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; Make their backs bend forever under their burden!"
11 I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.
12 But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!
13 But it is to you who are of the heathen that I am speaking. So far then as I am an apostle to the heathen, I make the most of my ministry,
14 in the hope of making my countrymen jealous, and thus saving some of them.