25as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what [is] not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,
26and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.`
27And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;
28for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.
29and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.`