For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;