3. “Adonai, they have killed your prophets, they have destroyed your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”
4. But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5. So in the same way also at this present time there has come to be a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.
6. But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7. What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened—
8. just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”
9. And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10. Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and bend their back continually.”
11. I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their false step salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke Israel to jealousy.
12. Now if their transgression leads to riches for the world, and their loss riches for the Gentiles, then how much more their fullness!
13. But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Insofar as I am an emissary to the Gentiles, I spotlight my ministry