Romans 9
9
1I speak HaEmes in Moshiach, I do not speak sheker, my matzpun (conscience) bearing me eidus (witness) in the Ruach HaKodesh,
2That there is great agmat nefesh to me and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3For I could wish that my neshamah be put under cherem (ban of destruction), under Churban, and Onesh Gehinnom, cut off from Moshiach for the sake of my achim, my own kinsmen, my people and flesh and blood relatives,
4In as much as they are Bnei Yisroel: theirs is the Mishpat HaBanim Adoption, the Ma'amad HaBanim Standing as Sons, and the Kavod (glory) and the Shechinah (glorious presence of G-d) and the Beritot (covenants), the Matan Torah, the Avodas Kodesh (worship) and the Havtachot (promises);
5Theirs are the Avot (the Patriarchs), and from them came, in so far as his humanity is concerned, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, al hakol hu HaElohim mam'vorach l'Olam va'ed. Omein.
6But it is not as though the Dvar Hashem has failed. For not all those descended from Yisroel are truly redeemed Yisroel [of the eschatological Geulah Redemption].
7Nor is it as though all the banim of K'lal Yisroel are the ZERA of Avraham Avinu, but [as it is written], BEYITZCHAK YIKARE L'CHA ZERA (In Yitzchak shall your seed be called, named, summoned).#9:7 Gn 21:12
8That is, it is not the Bnei habasar (old humanity without hitkhadshut) who are the Bnei HaElohim (children of G-d) but the Bnei HaHavtachah (children of the promise) who are reckoned as ZERA (seed, children, including the right of the heir in relation to the father).
9For this word is one of havtachah (promise): KA'ET SHOV ASHUV UL'SARAH BEN (About this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son).#9:9 Gn 18:10,14
10Not only so, but also in the case of Rivkah (Isaacʼs wife) who conceived by the one act of sexual intercourse with Yitzchak Avinu.
11For when they were not yet born nor had they done any mitzvah or averah, in order that the etzah (wisdom) of the tochnit Hashem (purposeful and willed plan of G-d)#9:11 Ro 8:28 should stand in terms of bechirah (divine election, selection, choosing),
12Not from#9:12 zokheh-earning mitzvos but from the One who makes the kri'ah (divine summons),#9:12 Ro 8:30 it was said to her, RAV YA'AVOD TZA'IR (the elder will serve the younger),#9:12 Gn 25:23
13As it is written, VA'OHAV ES YA'AKOV V'ES ESAV SANEITI (Ya'akov have I loved, but Esau have I hated).#9:13 Mal 1:2-3
14What then shall we say? There is no avla (injustice) with G-d, is there? Chas v'shalom!
15For to Moshe Rabbeinu Hashem says, V'CHANNOTI ES ASHER ACHON V'RICHAMETTI ES ASHER ARACHEM (I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion).#9:15 Ex 33:19
16So then, it is not a matter of the one who wills or the one who runs. It is a matter of the YAD HASHEM HACHANINAH (the hand of the G-d of gracious, free mercy).
17For the Kitvei Hakodesh says to Pharaoh, BA'AVUR ZOT HE'EMADTICHA BA'AVUR HAROTECHA ES KOCHI ULEMA'AN SAPER SHMI BECHOL HA'ARETZ (For this purpose I raised you up, in order that I might demonstrate in you my power and in order that my Name might be proclaimed in all the earth).#9:17 Ex 9:16
18So then, to whom Hashem wills Hashem shows chaninah (mercy, free grace), but whom Hashem wills he hardens.#9:18 that is, makes unresponsive or more mired down in KESHI (stubbornness, hardness); Dt 9:27
19You will say to me, Then why does Hashem still find fault? For who has resisted His will?
20On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to answer back to G-d? VEYETZER AMAR LEYOTZRO (Can the pot say to the potter),#9:20 Isa 29:16 Why have you made me thus?
21Or does the potter not have the right over the clay#9:21 Jer 18:6 to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
22But what if naniach (supposing) Hashem, willing to demonstrate His Charon Af Hashem (burning anger of G-d) and to make known His ko'ach (power),#9:22 1:16,18 put up with and endured with savlanut (patience) vessels which are objects of G-dʼs Charon Af (burning anger), objects made ready for Churban,#9:22 Ro 9:3
23And in order that He might make known the wealth of His kavod (glory) on vessels which are objects of Hashemʼs chaninah (mercy, free grace) which He prepared beforehand for kavod?#9:23 Ro 8:29-30
24By which I mean us, whom also He called, not only from the Yehudim but also from the non-Jews,
25As it says in Hoshea, V'AMARTI L'LO AMMI AMI ATAH (And I will call the “not my people” my people),#9:25 Hos 2:23 [2:25] and the “not loved” loved;
26And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” there they shall be called Bnei EL CHAI#9:26 Hos 2:1 (sons of the living G-d).
27Yeshayah proclaims concerning Yisroel, Even if the number of the Bnei Yisroel are as the sand of the sea, only the She'erit (Remnant) will return (be saved),
28For Hashem will complete and cut short and will perform His Word on the earth.#9:28 Isa 10:22-23
29And as Yeshayah said beforehand, Except Adonoi Tz'vaot had left us SARID KIM'AT#9:29 Ro 9:7 (some survivors), we would have become like S'dom and we would have been the same as Amora.#9:29 Isa 1:9
30What then shall we say? That Goyim who do not pursue Tzidkot (righteousness) have attained Tzidkot which is Tzidkot through emunah,
31Whereas Yisroel pursuing a#9:31 supposed zokheh-earning Tzidkat Torah did not arrive at that Torah?
32Why so? Because it was not on the mekor (basis) of emunah but on the mekor (basis) of#9:32 zokheh-earning ma'asim#9:32 Ro 3:20,28; 4:2,6; 9:11-12 (works). They have stumbled over the EVEN NEGEF (Stone of Stumbling),
33As it is written, Hinei, I place in Tziyon a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and he who believes in Me shall not be put to shame.#9:32-33 Isa 8:14; 28:16
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THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE
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Romans 9
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Israel’s Rejection of Christ
1I #2 Cor. 1:23tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2#Rom. 10:1that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3For #Ex. 32:32I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, 4who are Israelites, #Ex. 4:22; (Rom. 8:15)to whom pertain the adoption, #1 Sam. 4:21the glory, #Gen. 17:2; Deut. 29:14; Luke 1:72; Acts 3:25the covenants, #Deut. 4:13; Ps. 147:19the giving of the law, #Heb. 9:1, 6the service of God, and #(Acts 2:39; 13:32; Eph. 2:12)the promises; 5#Deut. 10:15of whom are the fathers and from #(Luke 1:34, 35; 3:23)whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, #Jer. 23:6who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose
6#Num. 23:19But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For #(John 8:39; Gal. 6:16)they are not all Israel who are of Israel, 7#(John 8:33, 39; Gal. 4:23)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, #Gen. 21:12; Heb. 11:18“In Isaac your seed shall be called.” 8That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but #Gal. 4:28the children of the promise are counted as the seed. 9For this is the word of promise: #Gen. 18:10, 14; Heb. 11:11“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”
10And not only this, but when #Gen. 25:21Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of #(Rom. 4:17; 8:28)Him who calls), 12it was said to her, #Gen. 25:23“The older shall serve the younger.” 13As it is written, #Mal. 1:2, 3“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice
14What shall we say then? #Deut. 32:4Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15For He says to Moses, #Ex. 33:19“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” 16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17For #Gal. 3:8the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, #Ex. 9:16“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” 18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He #Ex. 4:21; Deut. 2:30; Josh. 11:20; John 12:40; Rom. 11:7, 25hardens.
19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For #2 Chr. 20:6; Job 9:12; Dan. 4:35who has resisted His will?” 20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? #Is. 29:16; Jer. 18:6; Rom. 9:22; 2 Tim. 2:20Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21Does not the #Prov. 16:4potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make #2 Tim. 2:20one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering #(1 Thess. 5:9)the vessels of wrath #Prov. 16:4; (1 Pet. 2:8)prepared for destruction, 23and that He might make known #(Col. 1:27)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had #(Rom. 8:28–30)prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us whom He #(Rom. 8:28)called, #Is. 42:6, 7; 49:6; Luke 2:32; Rom. 3:29not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25As He says also in Hosea:
#Hos. 2:23; 1 Pet. 2:10“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
26“And#Hos. 1:10 it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
27Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
#Is. 10:22, 23“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
#Rom. 11:5The remnant will be saved.
28For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
#Is. 10:23; 28:22Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
29And as Isaiah said before:
#Is. 1:9“Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed,
#Deut. 29:23; Is. 13:19; Jer. 49:18; 50:40; Amos 4:11We would have become like Sodom,
And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”
Present Condition of Israel
30What shall we say then? #Rom. 4:11That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, #Rom. 1:17; 3:21; 10:6; (Gal. 2:16; 3:24; Phil. 3:9); Heb. 11:7even the righteousness of faith; 31but Israel, #(Rom. 10:2–4)pursuing the law of righteousness, #(Gal. 5:4)has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For #(Luke 2:34; 1 Cor. 1:23)they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33As it is written:
#(Ps. 118:22); Is. 8:14; 28:16; (Matt. 21:42; 1 Pet. 2:6–8)“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,
And #Rom. 5:5; 10:11whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
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