4. But what is the divine response to him? "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
5. In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.
6. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
7. What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
8. just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day."
9. And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
10. "Let their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs forever."
11. I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.