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Isaiah 1:9 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 1 · verse 9
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.Isaiah 1:9 · King James Version
Isaiah 1:9 in context
7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9Except 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.
10Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
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Key words (Strong's)
- remnantsârîyda survivorH8300 →
- Exceptlûwlêʼif notH3884 →
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
- smallmᵉʻaṭa little or fewH4592 →
- SodomÇᵉdômSedom, a place near the Dead SeaH5467 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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We will hope to meet with a brighter and more pleasant scene before we come to the end of this book; but truly here, in the beginning of it, every thing looks very bad, very black, with Judah and Jerusalem. What is the wilderness of the world, if the church, the vineyard, has such a dismal aspect as this? I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 2-9