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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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Lam. 3:22• 22It is of Jehovah's mercies that we are not consumed, because his mercies fail not. (Lam. 3:22)
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Rom. 9:29• 29And according as Esaias said before, “Unless [the] Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom and been made like as Gomorrha.” (Rom. 9:29)
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Gen. 19:24• 24Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrha brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; (Gen. 19:24)

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Gomorrah; Gomorrha,
Lord of Hosts,
Sodom; Sodoma,
The Remnant

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Lam. 3:22• 22It is of Jehovah's mercies that we are not consumed, because his mercies fail not. (Lam. 3:22)
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Hab. 3:2• 2O Jehovah, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid. (Hab. 3:2)
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Rom. 9:29• 29And according as Esaias said before, “Unless [the] Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom and been made like as Gomorrha.” (Rom. 9:29)
a very.
Isa. 6:13• 13But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and it shall return and be for consuming; as the terebinth and the oak, whose stock [remaineth] when cut down: the holy seed [shall be] the stock thereof. (Isa. 6:13)
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Isa. 10:22• 22For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption determined shall overflow in righteousness. (Isa. 10:22)
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Isa. 17:6• 6And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive tree: two, three berries in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah God of Israel. (Isa. 17:6)
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Isa. 24:13• 13For thus it will be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done. (Isa. 24:13)
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Isa. 37:4,31‑32• 4It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore 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 out of mount Zion they that shall escape; the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall perform 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 Jehovah shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as Jehovah hath said, and in the remnant whom Jehovah shall call. (Joel 2:32)
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Zech. 13:8‑9• 8And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, 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 answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God. (Zech. 13:8‑9)
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Matt. 7:14• 14Because narrow [is] the gate, and straitened the way that leadeth off unto life, and few are they that find it. (Matt. 7:14)
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Rom. 9:27• 27But Esaias crieth concerning Israel, “Were the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved, (Rom. 9:27)
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Rom. 11:4‑6• 4But what saith the divine answer to him? “I left for myself seven thousand men which never bowed knee to Baal.”
 5So then in the present time also there hath been a remnant according to election of grace;
 6and if by grace, no longer by works, since [otherwise] grace becometh no longer grace. (Rom. 11:4‑6)
we should.
Gen. 18:26,32• 26And Jehovah 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 Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrha brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; (Gen. 19:24)
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Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (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,{HR}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 among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrha, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:11)
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Zeph. 2:9• 9Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, 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 in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all [of them]:
 30after this [manner] shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:29‑30)
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2 Peter 2:6• 6and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily, (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have resembled Gomorrha.