²² Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

⁸ As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

⁹ And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

¹⁰ Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

³² For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

¹⁵ And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

² If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

⁸ And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.