as He says also in Hosea, “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not loved, ‘Beloved.’
So it will be in that day, I will respond —it is a declaration of adonai— I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth,
Once you were “not a people,” but now you are “God’s people.” You were shown “no mercy,” but now you have been shown “mercy.”
“Again I passed by and saw you, and behold, you were truly at the time of love. I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says Adonai. “So you became Mine.
To all those in Rome, loved by God, called to be kedoshim: Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah!
For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from God.
So You established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your very own people forever, and You, Adonai, have become their God.