1. I say then, has Elohim rejected His people? Let it not be! For I also am a Yisra’ĕlite, of the seed of Aḇraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.
2. Elohim has not rejected His people whom He knew beforehand. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Ěliyahu, how he pleads with Elohim against Yisra’ĕl, saying,
3. “יהוה, they have killed Your prophets and overthrown Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?
4. But what does the answer of Elohim say to him? “I have left for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Ba‛al.”
5. So therefore also, at this present time a remnant according to the choice of favour has come to be.
6. And if by favour, it is no longer of works, otherwise favour is no longer favour. And if it is of works, it is no longer favour, otherwise work is no longer work.
7. What then? Yisra’ĕl has not obtained what it seeks, but the chosen did obtain it, and the rest were hardened.