Young's Literal Translation YLT
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1 I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, 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 did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning 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, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'
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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 saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a 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 So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;
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So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
6 and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
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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 What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were 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 according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,
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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 saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;
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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 their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'
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May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
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