Roemers 9
1 Ich rede die Wahrheit in Christus, ich lüge nicht - mein Gewissen bezeugt es mir in heiligem Geist -
[Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ]. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully [what I will now tell you]. I am not lying [DOU]! My conscience confirms what I [say] because the Holy Spirit [controls it].
2 wenn ich sage, daß ich einen großen Kummer und beständigen Schmerz im Herzen trage.
[I tell you that] I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] [about my fellow Israelites].
3 Wünschte ich doch lieber selbst verbannt zu sein von Christus zum besten meiner stammverwandten Brüder nach dem Fleische,
I personally would be willing to let [God] curse me [and, as a result, be separated] from Christ, [if that would] help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen, [to believe in Christ].
4 die da sind Israeliten, denen die Kindschaft gehört und die Herrlichkeit, die Bündnisse, die Gesetzgebung, der Gottesdienst und die Verheißungen,
We [Jews] are [Israelites, God’s chosen] descendants of [Jacob]. [God has always considered] us as his children [MET]. It was to our ancestors [that he used to appear] gloriously [while they were in the desert]. It was with them that [God made] covenants [several times]. It was to them [that God] gave the laws [at Sinai Mountain]. They were the ones [to whom God showed how they should] worship him. They were the ones [to whom God] promised many things, [especially that the Messiah would come from their race].
5 welche die Väter für sich haben und aus welchen der Christus stammt nach dem Fleische - der Gott, der da ist über allem, sei hochgelobet in Ewigkeit. Amen. (aiōn g165)
It was our ancestors, [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation]. And, [most importantly], it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature. [Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) (aiōn g165)
6 Aber nicht als ob ich meinte, das Wort Gottes sei hinfällig geworden. Nicht alle nämlich, die von Israel stammen, sind Israel.
[God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings]. But [although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], that does not [prove] that God has failed [to do] the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who [call themselves the people of] Israel whom [God considers] to be truly his people.
7 Auch sind nicht alle darum, daß sie Abrahams Same sind, Kinder. Sondern: Was zu Isaak gehört, soll dein Same heißen,
And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that [God considers] to be his people. Instead, [God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children]. [This agrees with what God told Abraham]: “It is Isaac, [not any of your(sg) other sons], whom [I] will consider [to be the true father of] your descendants.”
8 das heißt: nicht die Kinder des Fleisches sind Kinder Gottes, sondern die Kinder der Verheißung gelten als der Same.
That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants [of Abraham] whom God [considers as] his children. Instead, it is those who [believed what God] promised whom [he] considers to be his children.
9 Denn ein Wort der Verheißung ist das Wort: Zu dieser Zeit will ich kommen und Sara soll einen Sohn haben.
[You know that what God] promised [to Abraham] was this: “About this time [next year] Sarah [your wife] will bear a son [as a result of my enabling] [MTY] [her to do so].” [So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him] (OR, [that his true descendants would come]).
10 Und nicht nur hier, ebenso ist es bei der Rebekka, die doch von Einem Manne, unserem Vater Isaak, empfangen hatte:
And not only then did God show [that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again] when Rebecca conceived [twins] by our ancestor Isaac.
11 denn ehe sie noch geboren waren, noch etwas Gutes oder Schlimmes gethan hatten, da - damit es bleibe bei Gottes freier Wahl, unabhängig von Werken, ganz nach seiner Berufung -
Before [the twins, Jacob and Esau], were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad, [God] said to Rebecca [about the twins she was to bear], “The older one shall later serve the younger one, [contrary to normal custom].” [God said this] in order that [we] might [clearly] understand that what he purposed [for people] was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s [eternal destiny] does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on [God], the one who chooses them.
12 ward ihr gesagt: der ältere soll dem jüngeren dienen,
13 wie denn geschrieben steht: Den Jakob liebte ich, den Esau aber haßte ich.
And [this teaching is] ([supported/shown to be true]) [by] what is written [in the Scriptures] {what [a prophet] recorded} [that God said]: “I favored Jacob, [the younger son]. I did not favor [HYP] Esau, [the older son].”
14 Was sagen wir dazu? Geht es mit Unrecht zu bei Gott? Nimmermehr.
[Someone] might say, “(Is God unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think] that God is unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose!])” [RHQ] [I would reply], “[He is] certainly not [unjust]!”
15 Zu Moses sagt er: Wem ich gnädig bin, dem bin ich gnädig, und wessen ich mich erbarme, dessen erbarme ich mich.
God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose [DOU]!”
16 So kommt es also nicht an auf jemandes Wollen oder Laufen, sondern auf Gottes Erbarmen.
So [God chooses people], not because they want [God to choose them] or because they try hard [to do things so that he] will [accept them]. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy [on undeserving ones].
17 Sagt doch die Schrift zu Pharao: Eben dazu habe ich dich erweckt, um an dir meine Macht zu zeigen, und meinen Namen kund zu geben auf der ganzen Erde.
[Moses] recorded [PRS] [that God had told] Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you [(sg)] authority [MTY]: It was in order that I might show [by how I oppose] you [how exceedingly] powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere [HYP] would hear about me [MTY].”
18 Aber wessen er will, dessen erbarmt er sich, und wen er will, den verhärtet er.
So [we conclude that God] kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones [such as Pharaoh] that he wants [to make stubborn].
19 Du wendest mir ein: was schuldigt er dann noch? Wer kann dann seinem Willen widerstehen?
[One of] you may [object to this by] saying to me, “[Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do]. (No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?) [RHQ] Therefore, (it would not be right that God would still condemn [a person for having sinned]!/why does God still condemn [a person for having sinned]?) [RHQ]”
20 Ja wohl, o Mensch: wer bist denn also du, der du mit Gott rechten willst? Darf denn das Gebilde zum Bildner sagen: warum hast du mich gerade so gemacht?
[I would reply that since] you [(sg)] are [just a] human being, (you do not [have any right at all to] criticize God!/[who are you to] say that what God does is wrong?) [RHQ] [As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you]. (A clay pot [MET] certainly would not [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”/Would a clay pot [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”) [RHQ]
21 Oder hat nicht der Töpfer Macht über den Thon, aus demselben Teige hier ein Gefäß zur Ehre, dort zur Unehre zu machen?
Instead, (the potter certainly has the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] one for ordinary purposes [MET]./does not a potter have the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] pot for ordinary purposes?) [MET, RHQ] [Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people].
22 Wenn aber nun Gott, obwohl er seinen Zorn zeigen und seine Macht kund thun will, doch die Gefäße des Zornes, die zum Untergange gerichtet sind, mit vieler Langmut ertrug,
Although God desires to show that he is angry [about sin], and [although he desires to] make clear that he can powerfully [punish people who have sinned], he tolerated very patiently the people [MET] who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed).
23 um dabei kund zu thun den Reichtum seiner Herrlichkeit an Gefäßen des Erbarmens, die er zur Herrlichkeit voraus bereitet hat,
[God has been patient] in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully [he acts toward those] [MET] whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might [live] gloriously [in heaven].
24 wie er denn als solche uns berufen hat und zwar nicht nur aus den Juden, sondern auch aus den Heiden?
That means us whom he chose—not only [us] Jews but also non-Jews.
25 Wie er auch im Hoseas sagt: Ich werde mein Volk nennen, was nicht mein Volk war, und meine Liebe, die nicht meine Liebe war.
[These words that] Hosea wrote [MTY] that [God] said also (show that God has the right/[support God’s right]) [to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews] [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
26 Und es soll geschehen, an dem Orte, wo es hieß, ihr seid nicht mein Volk, da werden sie Söhne des lebendigen Gottes heißen.
And [another prophet wrote]: What will happen is that in the places where [God] told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places [people] will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful.
27 Jesaias aber ruft über Israel: Wenn die Zahl der Söhne Israel wäre wie der Sand am Meer, der Rest wird gerettet werden.
Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are [so many that no one can count them, like] sand [particles on the beach beside] the ocean, [only] a small part of them will be saved {[God] will save [only] a small part of them},
28 Denn sein Wort wird der Herr ausführen und kurzab vollenden auf der Erde.
because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the [people who live on] this earth, as he said that he would do.
29 Sowie auch Jesaias zuvor gesagt hat: Wenn der Herr Sabaoth uns nicht Samen übergelassen hätte: wie Sodom wären wir geworden und gleich wie Gomorrha anzusehen.
[Also, we can understand from what the prophet] Isaiah said [that God would not save] anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of [the cities of] Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.
30 Was wollen wir also sagen? Daß Heiden, die nicht nach Gerechtigkeit trachteten, Gerechtigkeit davon getragen haben, die Gerechtigkeit nämlich aus Glauben,
We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out [a way by which] God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted [in what Christ did for them].
31 Israel aber, welches dem Gesetz der Gerechtigkeit nachtrachtete, nicht zum Gesetz gelangt ist.
But although [the people of] Israel sought a basis [by which God would] erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in [fulfilling the true purpose of the] laws [that God gave to Moses].
32 Warum? weil es nicht vom Glauben ausgieng, sondern es von Werken aus versuchte. Da stießen sie sich am Stein des Anstoßes,
The reason [RHQ] [that they did not succeed] is that they did not trust that [God would provide a way to save them]. Instead, they were trying to do certain things [in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites] felt disgusted about [Jesus’ death, which is like] the stone [MET] on which people stumble.
33 wie geschrieben steht: Siehe ich setze in Sion einen Stein des Anstoßes, und einen Fels des Aergernisses; und wer auf ihn traut, wird nicht zu Schanden werden.
This is what [a prophet] predicted when he wrote these words that [God said about the Messiah]: Listen! I am placing in Israel [MTY] [one who is like] a stone [MET] on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people [DOU]. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed.
