'People' in the Bible

as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what is not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,

and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

and unto Israel He saith, 'All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

and again it saith, 'Rejoice ye nations, with His people;'