LEB(i)
2 God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about* Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"*
4 But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people* who have not bent the knee to Baal."*
5 So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant ⌊selected by grace⌋*.
6 But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened,
8 just as it is written,
"God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day."* 9 And David says,
"Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them; 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend ⌊continually⌋*."* 11 I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they?* May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.* 12 And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?
"God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day."* 9 And David says,
"Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them; 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend ⌊continually⌋*."* 11 I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they?* May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.* 12 And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?