25. As the Scripture says in Hosea:“I will say, ‘You are my people’to those I had called ‘not my people.’And I will show my loveto those people I did not love.”
26. “They were called,‘You are not my people,’but later they will be called‘children of the living God.’ ”
27. And Isaiah cries out about Israel:“The people of Israel are many,like the grains of sand by the sea.But only a few of them will be saved,
28. because the Lord will quickly and completely punish the people on the earth.”