Romansd 9 - 11 is about God choosing Israel.
Your right, He had mercy on Israel for many years. He had no mercy on Edom. (Esau) He destroyed them.
Your right, He had mercy on Israel for many years. He had no mercy on Edom. (Esau) He destroyed them.
It's about the election (or not) of certain people by God to salvation.
[Rom 9:10-11, 15-16 KJV]
10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac;
11 (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ...
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.