TSK · Isaiah 45:4

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have chosen:

Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;