Isaiah 1:9

Unless Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies] had left to us a very small remnant, 2 we would have been as Sodom [Burning]; 2 we would have been like Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants]. + 1:9. Quoted in Rom 9:29 1

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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

8The daughter of Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking] is left like a shelter in a vineyard, 2 like a hut in a field of melons, 2 like a besieged city. 1

10Sh'ma ·Hear obey· Adonai’s word, you rulers of Sodom [Burning]! 2 Listen to the Torah ·Teaching· of our God, you people of Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants]! 1

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Cross References

Genesis 18:32He said, “Oh don’t let 'Adonay [Lord] be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

Deuteronomy 29:23and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, does not produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom [Burning], Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants], Admah, and Zeboiim, which Adonai overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;

Isaiah 6:13If there is a tenth left in it, 2 that also will in turn be consumed: 1 as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; 2 so the holy seed is its stock.”

Isaiah 17:6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, Elohim Isra'el [He sustains breathing, God of God prevails].

Isaiah 24:13For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

Isaiah 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah [Praised] will again take root downward, and bear fruit 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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