Romans 11:1-10

1I say then, God has not 1rejected His people, has He? 23Far from it! For 4I too am an Israelite, 5a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God 6has not rejected His people whom He 7foreknew. 8Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3“Lord, 9they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4But what 10is the divine response to him? “11I 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 12a remnant according to God’s 13gracious choice. 6But 14if it is by grace, it is no longer 15on the basis of works, since otherwise grace is no longer grace.

7What then? What 16Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but 17those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were 18hardened; 8just as it is written: “19God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day.” 9And David says, “20May their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.1021May their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs continually.”