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25 As ·the Scripture [or God] says in Hosea:

“I will ·say, ‘You are my people’ [call them ‘my people’]
    to those who were not my people.
And I will ·show my love [call her ‘beloved’]
    to ·those people [her] I did not love [Hos. 2:1, 23; C in Hosea, a reference to apostate Israel; here applied to the Gentiles].”
26 “And in the same place where they were called,
    ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called
    ‘children of the living God [Hos. 1:10].’”

27 And Isaiah cries out about Israel:

[L Though] The ·people [L children; sons] of Israel are numbered
    like the grains of sand ·by [or of] the sea.
But only ·a few of them [the remnant] will be saved,

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25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[a](A)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[b](B)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(C)
    only the remnant will be saved.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  2. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10