^9 (A)Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like ^(B)Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.

²⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day
That the remnant of Israel,
And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob,
^(A)Will never again depend on him who ^[a]defeated them,
But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
²¹ The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob,
To the ^(B)Mighty God.
^22 (C)For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
^(D)A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

² Now they sin more and more,
And have made for themselves molded images,
Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
“Let ^[a]the men who sacrifice ^[b]kiss the calves!”

^12 [a]Kiss the Son, lest ^[b]He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When ^(A)His wrath is kindled but a little.
^(B)Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

^23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And ^(B)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
^(C)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”