Weymouth New Testament WNT
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1 I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.
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I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah--how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,
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God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:
3 "Lord, they have put Thy Prophets to death, and have overthrown Thy altars; and, now that I alone remain, they are thirsting for my blood"?
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“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me” ?
4 But what did God say to him in reply? "I have reserved for Myself 7,000 men who have never bent the knee to Baal."
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And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 In the same way also at the present time there has come to be a remnant whom God in His grace has selected.
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So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
6 But if it is in His grace that He has selected them, then His choice is no longer determined by human actions. Otherwise grace would be grace no longer.
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And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
7 How then does the matter stand? It stands thus. That which Israel are in earnest pursuit of, they have not obtained; but God's chosen servants have obtained it, and the rest have become hardened.
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What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,
8 And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness--eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with--even until now."
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as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
9 And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.
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And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10 Let darkness come over their eyes that they may be unable to see, and make Thou their backs continually to stoop."
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May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
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