Romans 11:1-10

1I say then, God has not 1rejected His people, has He? 2May it never be! For 3I too am an Israelite, 4a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God 5has not rejected His people whom He 6foreknew. 7Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3“Lord, 8they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4But what 9is the divine response to him? “10I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time 11a remnant according to God’s 12gracious choice. 6But 13if it is by grace, it is no longer 14on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

7What then? What 15Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but 16those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were 17hardened; 8just as it is written, “18God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day.” 9And David says, “19Let their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.1020Let their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs forever.”