7. What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened,
8. just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day.”
9. And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;
10. let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend continually.”
11. I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.
12. And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?
13. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Therefore, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I promote my ministry,
14. if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead?