Isaiah 1:9

Except Hashem Tzva'os 1 had left unto us a very small remnant, 1 we should have been as Sodom, 1 and we should have been like unto Amora (Gomorrah). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

In Context

8And the Bat Tziyon (i.e., Yerushalayim) is left 1 as a sukkah in a kerem (vineyard), 1 as a shack in a cucumber field, 1 as an ir (city) under siege. 1

10Hear the Devar Hashem, 1 ye rulers of Sodom; 1 give ear unto the Torat Eloheinu, 1 ye people of Amora (Gomorrah). 1

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Cross References

Genesis 18:32And he said, Oh let not Hashem be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: suppose asarah (ten, i.e., a minyan) shall be found there. And He said, I will not destroy it for the sake of haasarah (the ten).

Deuteronomy 29:23Even Kol HaGoyim shall say, Why hath Hashem done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this af hagadol (great anger)?

Isaiah 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, 1 and it shall be given up to destruction, 1 like the terebinth and like the oak, 1 when they are felled, leave + 6:13 as a remnant a root-stump: 1 so the root-stump shall be the zera kodesh. + 6:13 T.N. This next chapter is possibly the most important in the Bible and is dealt with in The Translator to the Reader.

Isaiah 17:6Yet a remnant of gleanings shall be left in it, 1 as the beating of a zayit (olive tree), 1 two or three olives in the rosh of the uppermost olive branch, 1 four or five in the poriyyah (fruitful) olive branches thereof, 1 saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel.

Isaiah 24:13When thus it shall be in the midst of HaAretz 1 among the nations, there shall be as the shaking of a zayit (olive tree), 1 and as the olelot (gleanings) when the grape harvest is done. 1

Isaiah 37:31And the remnant that is escaped of the Bais Yehudah shall again take shoresh (root) downward, and bear pri upward;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:3-10

The Degeneracy of Israel; The Sinfulness of Israel; The Sufferings of Israel. ( b. c. 738.) 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord , they have provoked the Holy One of… Read the whole commentary →

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