“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, 1 ‘My beloved.’” 2
9:26 “And in the very place 3 where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” 4
9:27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children 5 of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved, 9:28 for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.” 6 9:29 Just 7 as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of armies 8 had not left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have resembled Gomorrah.” 9
9:30 What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,
1 tn Grk “and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’”
2 sn A quotation from Hos 2:23.
3 tn Grk “And it will be in the very place.”
4 sn A quotation from Hos 1:10.
5 tn Grk “sons.”
6 tc In light of the interpretive difficulty of this verse, a longer reading seems to have been added to clarify the meaning. The addition, in the middle of the sentence, makes the whole verse read as follows: “For he will execute his sentence completely and quickly in righteousness, because the Lord will do it quickly on the earth.” The shorter reading is found largely in Alexandrian
7 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
8 tn Traditionally, “Lord of hosts”; Grk “Lord Sabaoth,” which means “Lord of the [heavenly] armies,” sometimes translated more generally as “Lord Almighty.”
9 sn A quotation from Isa 1:9.