'People' in the Bible

As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:

And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.