“Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.”
"May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever." — The continuation of Psalm 69:23 completes the picture of judgment: blindness and bending under weight. Paul uses these psalmic imprecations not as wishes but as descriptive prophecies of what occurs when Israel rejects the gospel. The pattern is woven through Israel's own sacred texts.
Church Fathers on Romans 11:10
“Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.” Do these things then still require any interpreting? Are they not plain even to those ever so senseless? And before our words, the very issue of facts has anticipated us in bearing witness to what was said. For at what time have they ever been so open to attacks? At what time such an easy prey? At what time has He so “bowed down their backs?” At what time have they been set under such…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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