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Isaiah 1

Isa. 1:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Except
luwle' (Hebrew #3884)
from 3863 and 3808; if not
KJV usage: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.
Pronounce: loo-lay'
Origin: or luwley {loo lay'}
s the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
had left
yathar (Hebrew #3498)
to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve
KJV usage: excel, leave (a remnant), left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, - nant), reserve, residue, rest.
Pronounce: yaw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto us a very small
m`at (Hebrew #4592)
from 4591; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
KJV usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, X very.
Pronounce: meh-at'
Origin: or miat {meh-awt'}
remnant
sariyd (Hebrew #8300)
a survivor
KJV usage: X alive, left, remain(- ing), remnant, rest.
Pronounce: saw-reed'
Origin: from 8277
, we should have been
hayah (Hebrew #1961)
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
KJV usage: beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
Pronounce: haw-yaw
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1933)
as Sodom
Cdom (Hebrew #5467)
burnt (i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Sodom.
Pronounce: sed-ome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to scorch
u, and we should have been like
damah (Hebrew #1819)
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
KJV usage: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
Pronounce: daw-maw'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Gomorrah
`Amorah (Hebrew #6017)
a (ruined) heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gomorrah.
Pronounce: am-o-raw'
Origin: from 6014
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left.
a very.
Isa. 6:13• 13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. (Isa. 6:13)
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Isa. 10:22• 22For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. (Isa. 10:22)
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Isa. 17:6• 6Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel. (Isa. 17:6)
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Isa. 24:13• 13When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. (Isa. 24:13)
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Isa. 37:4,31‑32• 4It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
(Isa. 37:4,31‑32)
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1 Kings 19:18• 18Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. (1 Kings 19:18)
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Ezek. 6:8• 8Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. (Ezek. 6:8)
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Ezek. 14:22• 22Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. (Ezek. 14:22)
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Joel 2:32• 32And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. (Joel 2:32)
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Zech. 13:8‑9• 8And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
(Zech. 13:8‑9)
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Matt. 7:14• 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matt. 7:14)
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Rom. 9:27• 27Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: (Rom. 9:27)
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Rom. 11:4‑6• 4But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
(Rom. 11:4‑6)
we should.
Gen. 18:26,32• 26And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
(Gen. 18:26,32)
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Gen. 19:24• 24Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; (Gen. 19:24)
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Deut. 29:23• 23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: (Deut. 29:23)
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Lam. 4:6• 6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. (Lam. 4:6)
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Amos 4:11• 11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. (Amos 4:11)
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Zeph. 2:9• 9Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. (Zeph. 2:9)
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Luke 17:29‑30• 29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
(Luke 17:29‑30)
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2 Peter 2:6• 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; (2 Peter 2:6)
 Verse 9 reveals that only a small remnant existed that God could recognize. Had not that remnant been there, a judgment like to that of Sodom and Gomorrah would have fallen on them. (Isaiah 1 by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.