Romans 9:25-29

Expanded Bible

²⁵As ·the Scripture [or God] says in Hosea:

“I will ·say, ‘You are my people’ [call them ‘my people’]
    to those who were not my people.
And I will ·show my love [call her ‘beloved’]
    to ·those people [her] I did not love [Hos. 2:1, 23; ^Cin Hosea, a reference to apostate Israel; here applied to the Gentiles].”
²⁶“And in the same place where they were called,
    ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called
    ‘children of the living God [Hos. 1:10].’”

²⁷And Isaiah cries out about Israel:

“[^LThough] The ·people [^Lchildren; sons] of Israel are numbered
like the grains of sand ·by [or of] the sea.
But only ·a few of them [the remnant] will be saved,
²⁸ because the Lord will quickly and completely ·punish the people [carry out/execute his sentence; settle his account] on the earth [Is. 10:22–23].”

²⁹It is as Isaiah said:

“If the Lord ·All-Powerful [of Hosts; of Heaven’s Armies]
had not ·allowed a few of our descendants to live [left us offspring/seed],
We would have become like Sodom
and would resemble Gomorrah [Is. 1:9; ^COT cities destroyed by God because of their wickedness; Gen. 19].”