3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and destroyed Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life”?
4 But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 So then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then is it no longer by grace; otherwise work would no longer be work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
8 As it is written: “God has given them a spirit of slumber,eyes that would not seeand ears that would not hear,to this very day.”
9 And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap,a stumbling block and a retribution to them.