I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles.

For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

"Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.

Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren.

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook [his] garments and said to them, "Your blood [be] upon your [own] heads; I [am] clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up [the measure of] their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

" But you, Israel, [are] My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.

[You] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its farthest regions, And said to you, 'You [are] My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away:

"And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

"Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

' [But] if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.

'(for the LORD your God [is] a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

"The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;

"but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

"And you shall remember the LORD your God, for [it is] He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as [it is] this day.

"[It is] not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart [that] you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations [that] the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

"The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as [it is] this day.

He remembers His covenant forever, The word [which] He commanded, for a thousand generations,

And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel [as] an everlasting covenant,

The LORD has appeared of old to me, [saying:] "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

You will give truth to Jacob [And] mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From days of old.

He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of [His] mercy,

"Blessed [is] the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people,

As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who [have been] since the world began,

To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant,

To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,