²⁴ “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have ^(A)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.

²⁵ “Thus says the Lord: ‘If ^(B)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not ^(C)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, ^26 (D)then I will ^(E)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”

² God has not cast away His people whom ^(A)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, ^3 (B)“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? ⁴ But what does the divine response say to him? ^(C)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ^5 (D)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

²⁶ And so all Israel will be ^[a]saved, as it is written: