7. What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,
8. according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' --unto this very day,
9. and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;
10. let their eyes be darkened--not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'
11. I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;
12. and if the fall of them [is] the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?