JMNT(i)
22 Now since (or: So what if)
God – habitually willing (or: repeatedly intending)
to display and demonstrate inherent fervor, natural impulse, propensity and disposition (or: teeming passion; swelling desire; or: anger, wrath and indignation),
and also to make known by personal experience His power and ability – in much long-suffering (long-breathing; forbearance)
bears and carries (or: brought forth and produced; or: enduringly supports while moving)
containers (vessels; instruments; utensils)
of natural impulse (belonging to a passionate disposition; displaying inherent fervor; from teeming passion and swelling desire; or: of anger; having the character of wrath; owned by indignation),
being folks having been fully outfitted, thoroughly prepared and made correspondingly adequate for loss (or: having equipped, adapted and adjusted themselves down into ruin, waste and destruction [of their well-being]),
and now continuing in this condition,
23 [it is] to the end that He could and would (or: may)
also at some point make known by intimate experience the wealth of His glory (or: of His manifestation of that which calls forth praise; of the glory which is Him; which pertains to His reputation; from His imagination and opinion)
upon containers of mercy (instruments of mercy),
which He beforehand prepares into [being] (or: made ready and provides into the midst of)
a manifestation of [that] glory
24 –
even us, whom He calls (or: at one point summoned; invites),
not only from out of the Jews, but further, even from out of the nations (or: out of the ethnic multitudes, also; forth from the Gentiles, too).
25 And so, as He is saying in Hosea, "The one [
that is]
not My people, I will be continually (or: one-after-another)
calling, 'My people,' and her being one that had not been loved, 'Beloved one;'