²⁴ “Have you not observed what these people have asserted, saying, ‘The ^(A)two families which the Lord chose, He has ^(B)rejected them’? So they ^(C)despise My people as no longer being a nation ^[a]in their sight. ²⁵ This is what the Lord says: ‘If My ^(D)covenant for day and night does not continue, and I have ^(E)not established the ^[b]fixed patterns of heaven and earth, ²⁶ then I would ^(F)reject the ^[c]descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so as not to take from his ^[d]descendants ^(G)rulers over the ^[e]descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will ^(H)restore their fortunes and have ^(I)mercy on them.’”

² God ^(A)has not rejected His people whom He ^(B)foreknew. ^(C)Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? ³ “Lord, ^(D)they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” ⁴ But what ^[a]is the divine response to him? “^(E)I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵ In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time ^(F)a remnant according to God’s ^[b]gracious choice.

²⁶ and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written: