3 Lord, they have killed Your prophetsand torn down Your altars.I am the only one left,and they are trying to take my life!
4 But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.
5 In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.
6 Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.
7 What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,
8 as it is written:God gave them a spirit of insensitivity, eyes that cannot seeand ears that cannot hear,to this day.
9 And David says:Let their feasting become a snare and a trap,a pitfall and a retribution to them.