RSV ~ Romans 11 v1 - 10

Rom 11:1-10 | Israel’s Rejection Is Not Final

1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Eli’jah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”

4 But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Ba’al.”

5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

8 as it is written,

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear,

down to this very day.”

9 And David says,

“Let their feast become a snare and a trap,

a pitfall and a retribution for them;

10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,

and bend their backs for ever.”