Romans 9:19-29 - God's Anger And Mercy
19 Thou wilt say to me, then - Why longer findeth he fault? For, his purpose, who hath withstood? 20 O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it - Why didst thou make me thus? 21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay - out of the same lump, to make some, indeed, into a vessel for honour, and some for dishonour? 22 And, if God - wishing to shew his anger and to make known his power - bare, in much patience, with vessels of anger already fitted for destruction, 23 In order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he prepared beforehand for glory, - 24 Whom he also called, even us, not only from among Jews, but also from among the nations, what then? 25 As also in Hosea he saith - I will call the not-my-people, My people, and the not-beloved, beloved,
26 And it shall be - in the place where it was said to them- not my people are, ye! there, shall they be called - Sons of a Living God.
27 Isaiah, moreover, exclaimeth over Israel - Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant, shall be saved; 28 For, a complete and concise account, will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And, even as Isaiah hath before said, - If, the Lord of hosts, had not left us a seed, as Sodom, had we become, and, as Gomorrha, had we been made like.