"Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst.
For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand con the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.
Then you shall flee through My mountain valley...
Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the eearthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with You.
 It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light;
The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night.
But at evening time it shall happen that it will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be l“The Lord is one,” and His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate....
11 The people shall dwell in it;
And no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall 8dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day
That a great panic from the Lord will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
sAnd the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance. ...(Zec 14:1-21)

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go. (Ex 10:20)

O Lord, why have You zmade us stray from Your ways,
And hardened our heart from Your fear? (Is 63:17).

For ythey had not understood about the loaves, because their zheart was hardened.  (Mk 6:52).

0 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because git has been given to you to know the 1mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 hFor whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
i‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not jperceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears kare hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have lclosed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I 2should mheal them.’
16 But nblessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you othat many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."  Mt 13:10-17)


37 But although He had done so many psigns before them, they did not believe in Him, 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
q“Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
40 “He rhas blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
sLest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”
41 tThese things Isaiah said 6when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.
The New King James Version. 1982 (Jn 12:37-41). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.


23 So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, sto whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus tfrom both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And usome were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved. 25 So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to 5our fathers, 26 saying,
v‘Go to this people and say:
“Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand;
And seeing you will see, and not perceive;
27 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.” ’
28 “Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent wto the Gentiles, and they will hear it!” 29 6And when he had said these words, the Jews departed and had a great dispute among themselves.
The New King James Version. 1982 (Ac 28:23-29). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
I atell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 bthat I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For cI could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my 1countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, dto whom pertain the adoption, ethe glory, fthe covenants, gthe giving of the law, hthe service of God, and ithe promises; 5 jof whom are the fathers and from kwhom, according to the flesh, Christ came, lwho is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose
6 mBut it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For nthey are not all Israel who are of Israel, 7 onor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, p“In Isaac your seed shall be called.” 8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but qthe children of the promise are counted as the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise: r“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”
10 And not only this, but when sRebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of tHim who calls), 12 it was said to her, u“The older shall serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, v“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice
14 What shall we say then? wIs there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 For He says to Moses, x“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17 For ythe Scripture says to the Pharaoh, z“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ahardens.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For bwho has resisted His will?” 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? cWill the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Does not the dpotter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make eone vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering fthe vessels of wrath gprepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known hthe riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had iprepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He jcalled, knot of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As He says also in Hosea:
l“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
26 “And mit shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
n“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
oThe remnant will be saved.
28 For 2He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
pBecause the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.” (Ro 9:1-28)