3. Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
5. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6. But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
7. What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:
8. according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.
9. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back alway.
11. I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.