Romans 9:30 ASV

²⁸  for the Lord will execute `his' word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

²⁹  And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.

³⁰  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³¹  but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at `that' law.

³²  Wherefore? Because `they sought it' not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;