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Witness of the Prophets. 25 As indeed he says in Hosea:

“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved[a] I will call ‘beloved.’(A)
26 And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they shall be called children of the living God.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:25 Beloved: in Semitic discourse means “preferred” or “favorite” (cf. Rom 9:13). See Hos 2:1.

10 Once you were “no people”
    but now you are God’s people;
you “had not received mercy”
    but now you have received mercy.(A)

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