Romans 11:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ (according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ As it is written, God gave them a spirit (an attitude) of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, [that has continued] down to this very day. [Deut. 29:4; Isa. 29:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

Common English Bible

⁸ As it is written, “God gave them a dull spirit, so that their eyes would not see and their ears not hear, right up until the present day.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ just as it was written: "God has given them a spirit of reluctance: eyes that do not perceive, and ears that do not hear, even until this very day."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

Romans 11:8 Cross References

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “ ‘Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.’

Jeremiah 5:21

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;

Ezekiel 20:26

and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.

Luke 8:10

he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

Acts 28:26

‘Go to this people, and say, You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.

Deuteronomy 29:4

but to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.