2 WYC for greet heuynesse is to me, and contynuel sorewe to my herte. BSB BSB: I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3 WYC For Y my silf desiride to be departid fro Crist for my britheren, that ben my cosyns aftir the fleisch, that ben men of Israel; BSB BSB: For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
5 WYC whos ben the fadris, and of which is Crist after the fleisch, that is God aboue alle thingis, blessid in to worldis. BSB BSB: Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
6 WYC Amen. But not that the word of God hath falle doun. For not alle that ben of Israel, these ben Israelitis. BSB BSB: It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
7 WYC Nethir thei that ben seed of Abraham, `alle ben sonys; but in Ysaac the seed schal be clepid to thee; BSB BSB: Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
8 WYC that is to seie, not thei that ben sones of the fleisch, ben sones of God, but thei that ben sones of biheeste ben demed in the seed. BSB BSB: So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
9 WYC For whi this is the word of biheest, Aftir this tyme Y schal come, and a sone schal be to Sare. BSB BSB: For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
10 WYC And not oneli sche, but also Rebecca hadde twey sones of o liggyng bi of Ysaac, oure fadir. BSB BSB: Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
11 WYC And whanne thei weren not yit borun, nether hadden don ony thing of good ether of yuel, that the purpos of God schulde dwelle bi eleccioun, BSB BSB: Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
12 WYC not of werkis, but of God clepynge, it was seid to hym, BSB BSB: not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 WYC that the more schulde serue the lesse, as it is writun, Y louede Jacob, but Y hatide Esau. BSB BSB: So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 WYC What therfor schulen we seie? Whether wickidnesse be anentis God? BSB BSB: What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
15 WYC God forbede. For he seith to Moyses, Y schal haue merci on whom Y haue merci; and Y schal yyue merci on whom Y schal haue merci. BSB BSB: For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 WYC Therfor it is not nether of man willynge, nethir rennynge, but of God hauynge mercy. BSB BSB: So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
17 WYC And the scripture seith to Farao, For to this thing Y haue stirid thee, that Y schewe in thee my vertu, and that my name be teld in al erthe. BSB BSB: For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 WYC Therfor of whom God wole, he hath merci; and whom he wole, he endurith. BSB BSB: Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
19 WYC Thanne seist thou to me, What is souyt yit? for who withstondith his wille? BSB BSB: One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
20 WYC O! man, who art thou, that answerist to God? Whether a maad thing seith to hym that made it, What hast thou maad me so? BSB BSB: But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
21 WYC Whether a potter of cley hath not power to make of the same gobet o vessel in to honour, an othere in to dispit? BSB BSB: Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
22 WYC That if God willynge to schewe his wraththe, and to make his power knowun, hath suffrid in greet pacience vessels of wraththe able in to deth, BSB BSB: What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
23 WYC to schewe the riytchessis of his glorie in to vessels of merci, whiche he made redi in to glorie. BSB BSB: What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
24 WYC Whiche also he clepide not oneli of Jewis, but also of hethene men, as he seith in Osee, BSB BSB: including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
26 WYC and it schal be in the place, where it is seid to hem, Not ye my puple, there thei schulen be clepid the sones of `God lyuynge. BSB BSB: and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
27 WYC But Isaye crieth for Israel, If the noumbre of Israel schal be as grauel of the see, the relifs schulen be maad saaf. BSB BSB: Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 WYC Forsothe a word makynge an ende, and abreggynge in equyte, for the Lord schal make a word breggid on al the erthe. BSB BSB: For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”
29 WYC And as Ysaye bifor seide, But God of oostis hadde left to vs seed, we hadden be maad as Sodom, and we hadden be lijk as Gommor. BSB BSB: It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
30 WYC Therfor what schulen we seie? That hethene men that sueden not riytwisnesse, han gete riytwisnesse, yhe, the riytwisnesse that is of feith. BSB BSB: What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31 WYC But Israel suynge the lawe of riytwisnesse, cam not parfitli in to the lawe of riytwisnesse. BSB BSB: but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 WYC Whi? For not of feith, but as of werkys. And thei spurneden ayens the stoon of offencioun, BSB BSB: Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33 WYC as it is writun, Lo! Y putte a stoon of offensioun in Syon, and a stoon of sclaundre; and ech that schal bileue `in it, schal not be confoundid. BSB BSB: as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
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