Exodus 19:5-6

5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be amy treasured possession among all peoples, for ball the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a ckingdom of priests and da holy nation'. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

Isaiah 41:8-9

8 But you, Israel, emy servant,
Jacob, fwhom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, gmy friend;
9you whom I took from the ends of the earth,
and called hfrom its farthest corners,
saying to you, “You are imy servant,
jI have chosen you and not cast you off”;

Isaiah 43:3-4

3For kI am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
lI give Egypt as your ransom,
Cush and mSeba in exchange for you.
4Because you are precious in my eyes,
and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
peoples in exchange for your life.

Isaiah 43:14

14 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
n“For your sake I send to Babylon
and obring them all down as fugitives,
peven the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.

Isaiah 44:1

Israel the Lord’s Chosen

1 “But now hear, qO Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!

Jeremiah 50:17-20

17 rIsrael is a hunted sheep sdriven away by lions. tFirst the king of Assyria udevoured him, and now at last vNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon whas gnawed his bones. 18Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, xI am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, yas I punished the king of Assyria. 19 zI will restore Israel to his pasture, and aahe shall feed on abCarmel and in acBashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in adGilead. 20In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, aeiniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for afI will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

Matthew 24:22

22And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for agthe sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
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