Romans 11:1-10
God Has Not Rejected Israel
11I say then, has God arejected His people? bMay it never be! For cI too am an Israelite, a seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 21,aGod has not rejected His people whom He bforeknew. cOr do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? 3“Lord, athey have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4But what does the divine response say to him? “aI have left for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5In this way then, at the present time, aa remnant according to God’s 1gracious choice has also come to be. 6But aif it is by grace, it is no longer of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
7What then? What aIsrael is seeking, it has not obtained, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were bhardened; 8just as it is written, “1,aGod gave them a spirit of stupor,Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,Down to this very day.”
9And David says, “aLet their table become a snare and a trap,And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
10“aLet their eyes be darkened to see not,And bend their backs forever.”