23. He waited with patience so that he could make known his rich glory to the people who receive his mercy. He has prepared these people to have his glory,
24. and we are those people whom God called. He called us not from the Jews only but also from those who are not Jews.
25. As the Scripture says in Hosea:“I will say, ‘You are my people’to those I had called ‘not my people.’And I will show my loveto those people I did not love.”
26. “They were called,‘You are not my people,’but later they will be called‘children of the living God.’ ”
27. And Isaiah cries out about Israel:“The people of Israel are many,like the grains of sand by the sea.But only a few of them will be saved,
28. because the Lord will quickly and completely punish the people on the earth.”