TSK · Isaiah 45:4

you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom 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 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

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