Romans 9:27-28 : And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved: for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. Jews boasted, "We are Abraham's seed"; because of this they thought they had a right to all of God's richest blessings. But they had not believed their own prophets. They should have learned from Isaiah that only a remnant--a small portion--of Israel would be saved. The rest would be lost. To that end his word had gone forth, and that word would be executed, "finishing it and cutting it short."(See Isaiah 10:22-23). Yet it was hard for a Jew to see himself as a sinner.