24. not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,
25. as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what [is] not My people--My people; and her not beloved--Beloved,
26. and it shall be--in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'
27. And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;
28. for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.
29. and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'
30. What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith,
31. and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;
32. wherefore? because--not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,
33. according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'