There are several excellent comments on this thread.
Yes, the Bible is closed book absent the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Seek His presence every time you approach any translation. Don’t fully rely on commentators (as excellent as many are) but accept the counsel in this thread to pray, study and make your own notes - we are all unique and have something unique to share with the body of Christ.
It is helpful to understand all this in the light of some very important scholars and their response to the Gospel. Jewish scholars who study Isaiah 53 and still cannot see Jesus continue to amaze me.
Do the following:
Get Robert Alter’s three volume translation of the Old Testament. Not a Christian, but brilliant in Hebrew literature.
Get a Greek/Hebrew/English interlinear translation.
Get a New Testament which has the three synoptic Gospels printed with matching sections. A “parallel” translation.
Tischendorf’s annotated KJV based on his recovery of Codex Sinaiticus is very helpful and available from the Dolores Bookstore of Gene Scott’s ministry (now run by his widow, Melissa).
I make do with the NKJV and NIV for teaching (”Nearly Inerrant Version :)”
Blessings!
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Rom 11:8 (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.
Rom 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.