25 As it[a] also says in Hosea,

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.[b](A)
26 And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not my people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.[c](B)

27 But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

Though the number of Israelites
is like the sand of the sea,(C)
only the remnant will be saved;(D)
28 since the Lord will execute his sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.[d][e] (E)

29 And just as Isaiah predicted:

If the Lord of Armies had not left us offspring,(F)
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.[f](G)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:25 Or he
  2. 9:25 Hs 2:23
  3. 9:26 Hs 1:10
  4. 9:28 Or land
  5. 9:27–28 Is 10:22–23; 28:22; Hs 1:10
  6. 9:29 Is 1:9

25 As he also says in Hosea,

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’
    and those who were not loved, ‘Loved.’[a]
26 And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”[b]

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

Even if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea,
    the remnant will be saved,
28 for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively[c] upon the earth.”[d]

29 And just as Isaiah foretold,

“If the Lord of hosts had not left us descendants,
    we would have become like Sodom
        and would have resembled Gomorrah.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 A quotation from Hos 2:23
  2. Romans 9:26 A quotation from Hos 1:10
  3. Romans 9:28 Literally “for the Lord will act, closing the account and cutting short”
  4. Romans 9:28 A paraphrased quotation from Isa 10:22–23
  5. Romans 9:29 A quotation from Isa 1:9