Romans 11:6-9

⁶But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.

⁷What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.

⁸The rest grew callous; as scripture says — ‘God has given them a deadness of mind — eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear — and it is so to this very day.’

⁹David, too, says — ‘May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them — a hindrance and a retribution;