4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”
5 So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace.
6 But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened,
8 just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day.”
9 And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend continually.”