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26 Wherever they were told,
‘You are not my people,’
they will be called children of the living God.”

27 Isaiah also says about Israel:

“Although the descendants of Israel are
as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore,
only a few will be saved.
28 The Lord will carry out his sentence on the land,
completely and decisively.”

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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.’”[a](A)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(B)
    only the remnant will be saved.(C)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
  2. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)