3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”
4 But what is God’s response to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal.”
5 So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
6 But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened,
8 as it is written:“God gave them a spirit of deep sleep,eyes that should not seeand ears that should 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;