Romans 11:1–10
11 Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he?* May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about* Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel? 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!”a 4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand peopleb who have not bent the knee to Baal.”c 5 So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant ⌊selected by grace⌋d. 6 But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened, 8 just as it is written,
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear,
until this very day.”e
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;