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For who can resist His will?”","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":20,"text":"But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”","footnotes":[{"noteId":42,"offset":124,"text":"Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":21,"text":"Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":22,"text":"What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":23,"text":"What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":24,"text":"including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":25,"text":"As He says in Hosea:\n“I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people,\nand I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”","footnotes":[{"noteId":43,"offset":130,"text":"Hosea 2:23","caller":"+"}],"poem":[{"start":21,"end":73,"level":1},{"start":74,"end":130,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":26,"text":"and,\n“It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,\n‘You are not My people,’\nthey will be called\n‘sons of the living God.’”","footnotes":[{"noteId":44,"offset":142,"text":"Hosea 1:10","caller":"+"}],"poem":[{"start":5,"end":70,"level":1},{"start":71,"end":95,"level":2},{"start":96,"end":115,"level":1},{"start":116,"end":142,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":27,"text":"Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:\n“Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea,\nonly the remnant will be saved.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":36,"end":101,"level":1},{"start":102,"end":133,"level":2}]},{"type":"verse","number":28,"text":"For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth\nthoroughly and decisively.”","footnotes":[{"noteId":45,"offset":81,"text":"Isaiah 10:22–23 (see also LXX)","caller":"+"}],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":53,"level":1},{"start":54,"end":81,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":29,"text":"It is just as Isaiah foretold:\n“Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants,\nwe would have become like Sodom,\nwe would have resembled Gomorrah.”","footnotes":[{"noteId":46,"offset":149,"text":"Isaiah 1:9 (see also LXX)","caller":"+"}],"poem":[{"start":31,"end":81,"level":1},{"start":82,"end":114,"level":2},{"start":115,"end":149,"level":2}]},{"type":"heading","text":"Israel’s Unbelief"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":30,"text":"What then will we say? 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