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What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written,

‘God gave them a sluggish spirit,
    eyes that would not see
    and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.’

And David says,

‘Let their table become a snare and a trap,
    a stumbling-block and a retribution for them;

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