18. So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.
19. Then you shall say to me, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?”
20. But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
21. Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value?
22. And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23. and that He might make known the riches of His esteem on vessels of compassion, which He had prepared beforehand for esteem,
24. even whom He called, not only us of the Yehuḏim, but also of the gentiles?
25. As He says in Hoshĕa too, “I shall call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.”