24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

25 As indeed he says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people

I will call ‘my people,’

and her who was not beloved

I will call ‘my beloved.’ ”

26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved; 28 for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,

“If the Lord of hosts had not left us children,

we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah.”