4 But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
8 as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not seeand ears that would not hear,down to this very day.”
9 And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap,a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,and bend their backs forever.”