God Withholds His Blessings and Prevents Their Reception
He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. (John 12: 40.)
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor. (Josh. 11: 20.)
0 Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardened our heart? (Is. 63: 17.)