Romans 9:27

²⁵ As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”

²⁶ and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

²⁸ For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

²⁹ It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
KJV: Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
WEB: Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
ASV: And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
DARBY: But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:
BLB: And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel may be like the sand of the sea, [only] the remnant will be saved.

ÅB: Og Jesaja roper ut over Israel:
«Om tallet på Israels barn er som havets sand, så skal bare liten rest bli frelst;
OTB: Jesaja erklærer angående Israel:
«Selv om antallet av israelittene er som sanden ved havet,
skal bare en rest bli frelst.
B1930: Og Esaias roper ut over Israel: Om tallet på Israels barn er som havets sand, så skal bare levningen bli frelst;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 10:20–23
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
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Romans 11:4–6
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
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Jeremiah 5:10
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
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Ezekiel 6:8
Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
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Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
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