RYLT(i)
1 I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:
2 God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have you not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing says? how he does plead with God concerning Israel, saying,
3 'Lord, Your prophets they did kill, and Your altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'
4 but what says the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'
5 So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there has been;
6 and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becomes no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
7 What then? What Israel does seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,