Romans 9:19-29 - God's Anger And Mercy
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, "Why then blameth he us yet? For who can resist his will?" 20 But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?" 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 Even so, God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, suffered with long patience the vessels of wrath, ordained to damnation, 23 that he might declare the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared unto glory: 24 that is to say, us which he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the gentiles. 25 As he saith in Hosea, "I will call them my people which were not my people: and her beloved which was not beloved."
26 And, "It shall come to pass, in the place where it was said unto them, 'ye are not my people,' that there shall be called the children of the living God."
27 But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet shall a remnant be saved. 28 He finisheth the work verily and maketh it short in righteousness. For a short word will God make on earth."
29 And as Isaiah said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been made as Sodom, and had been likened to Gomorrah."