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25 As he says also in Hosea,

“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people;
    and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”Hosea 2:23
26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”Hosea 1:10

27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel,

“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
    it is the remnant who will be saved;
28 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
    because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”Isaiah 10:22-23

29 As Isaiah has said before,

“Unless the Lord of Armies[a] had left us a seed,
    we would have become like Sodom,
    and would have been made like Gomorrah.”Isaiah 1:9

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Footnotes

  1. 9:29 Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)

25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[a](A)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[b](B)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(C)
    only the remnant will be saved.(D)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[c](E)

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(F)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[d](G)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  2. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
  3. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
  4. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9