Isaiah 1:9

If, Yahweh of hosts, had not left us a very small remnant, Like Sodom, had we become, Gomorrah, had we resembled.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 left is the Daughter of Zion, Like a hut in a vineyard,—Like a lodge in a gourd-plot Like a city besieged.

10Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom,—Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah:—

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Cross References

Genesis 18:32And he said, Let it not, I pray thee, be vexing to My Lord, but let me speak only this once, Peradventure there may be found there—ten. And he said, I will not destroy [it], for the sake of the ten!

Deuteronomy 29:23brimstone and salt burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown neither shall it shoot forth neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath:

Isaiah 6:13Yet still shall there be in it a tenth, Though it again be consumed,—Like an oak and like a terebinth Which when felled, have a stock in them, A holy seed, shall be the stock thereof.

Isaiah 17:6Yet shall there be left therein, a gleaning. As in the beating of an olive-tree,—Two-three berries in the head of the tree-top,—Four—five, among her fruitful boughs, Declareth Yahweh God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13When, thus, it shall be in the earth in the midst of the peoples, [There shall be] like the shaking of an olive-tree, like the going round to pick when closed is the harvest.

Isaiah 37:31Then shall the escaped of the house of Judah that remain, 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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