Catholic Public Domain Version
"For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth.” "
— Romans 9:28, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.”
“for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. ”
“for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."”
“for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.””
“For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.”
“For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.”
“For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.”
just as he says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘my people,’ and she who was not beloved, ‘beloved,’ and she who had not obtained mercy, ‘one who has obtained mercy.’
And this shall be: in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they shall be called the sons of the living God.”
And Isaiah cried out on behalf of Israel: “When the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.
For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth.”
And it is just as Isaiah predicted: “Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah.”
What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith.
Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.