Sha'ul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 9
{9:1} I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience
testifying with me in the [1>]Ruach HaKodesh[<1], {9:2} that I have
great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. {9:3} For I could wish
that I myself were accursed from Messiah for my brothers' sake, my
relatives according to the flesh, {9:4} who are Yisra'elites; whose is
the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the
service, and the promises; {9:5} of whom are the fathers, and from
whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed
forever. Amein.
{9:6} But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing.
For they are not all Yisra'el, that are of Yisra'el. {9:7} Neither,
because they are Avraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In
Yitzchak will your seed be called." {9:8} That is, it is not the
children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the
promise are counted as a seed. {9:9} For this is a word of promise,
"At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son." {9:10}
Not only so, but Rivka also conceived by one, by our father Yitzchak.
{9:11} For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or
bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of
works, but of him who calls, {9:12} it was said to her, "The elder
will serve the younger." {9:13} Even as it is written, "Ya`akov I
loved, but Esav I hated."
{9:14} What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?
May it never be! {9:15} For he said to Moshe, "I will have mercy on
whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have
compassion." {9:16} So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who
runs, but of God who has mercy. {9:17} For the Scripture says to
Par`oh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I
might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad
in all the [2>]eretz[<2]." {9:18} So then, he has mercy on whom he
desires, and he hardens whom he desires. {9:19} You will say then to
me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"
{9:20} But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the
thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
{9:21} Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump
to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? {9:22}
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known,
endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
{9:23} and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels
of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, {9:24} us, whom he
also called, not from the Yehudim only, but also from the Goyim?
{9:25} As he says also in Hoshea,
"I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people;
And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
{9:26} "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You
are not my people,'
There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
{9:27} Yesha`yahu cries concerning Yisra'el,
"If the number of the children of Yisra'el are as the sand of the sea,
It is the remnant who will be saved;
{9:28} For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
Because the LORD will make a short work upon the [3>]eretz[<3]."
{9:29} As Yesha`yahu has said before,
"Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed,
We would have become like Sedom,
And would have been made like `Amorah."
{9:30} What shall we say then? That the Goyim, who didn't follow
after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith; {9:31} but Yisra'el, following after a law of
righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. {9:32} Why?
Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the
law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; {9:33} even as it is
written,
"Behold, I lay in Tziyon a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:1} Holy Spirit
[2] {9:17} earth
[3] {9:28} earth
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