Isaiah 41:8 “But
as for you, Israel my servant, Jacob my chosen one,
descended from Abraham my friend, 9 I have called you back
from the ends of the earth, saying, ‘You are my
servant.’
For I have
chosen you and will not throw you away.
10 Don’t
be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I
am your God.
I will
strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my
victorious right hand.
11 “See,
all your angry enemies lie there, confused and humiliated.
Anyone who opposes you will die and come to nothing.
Obadiah 1:15
“The day is near when I, the LORD, will judge all godless
nations!
As you
have done to Israel, so it will be done to you. All your
evil deeds will fall back on your own heads.
Jeremiah 33:23
The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, 24
“Have you noticed what people are saying?--‘The LORD chose
Judah and Israel and then abandoned them!’
They are
sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be
counted as a nation.
25 But
this is what the LORD says: I would no more reject my
people than I would change my laws that govern night and
day, earth and sky.
26 I will never
abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant, or
change the plan that David’s descendants will rule the
descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will
restore them to their land and have mercy on them.”
Romans 11:1 I
ask, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of
Israel? Of course not!
2 No, God has
not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very
beginning.
25 I want
you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters,
so that you will not feel proud about yourselves.
Some of
the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last
only until the full number of Gentiles comes to
Christ.
26 And so all
Israel will be saved. As the Scriptures say, “The one who
rescues will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel
away from ungodliness.
27 And this is
my covenant with them, that I will take away their
sins.”
28 Many of the
people of Israel are now enemies of the Good News, and
this benefits you Gentiles.
Yet they are
still the people he loves because he chose their ancestors
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
29 For God’s
gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.