26 And the Lord said, (A)“If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

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26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.(A)

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Jerusalem Refused to Repent

(A)Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
    look and take note!
Search her squares to see
    (B)if you can find a man,
one who does justice
    and seeks truth,
(C)that I may pardon her.

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Not One Is Upright

“Go up and down(A) the streets of Jerusalem,
    look around and consider,(B)
    search through her squares.
If you can find but one person(C)
    who deals honestly(D) and seeks the truth,
    I will forgive(E) this city.

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22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for (A)the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

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22 “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect(A) those days will be shortened.

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30 (A)And I sought for a man among them (B)who should build up the wall (C)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

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30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall(A) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.(B)

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Thus says the Lord:
(A)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
    for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
    (B)and not destroy them all.

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This is what the Lord says:

“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(A)
    and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
    there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(B)
    I will not destroy them all.

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24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, (A)a blessing in the midst of the earth,

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24 In that day(A) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(B) a blessing[a](C) on the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed

22 (A)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will return. (C)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

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22 Though your people be like the sand(A) by the sea, Israel,
    only a remnant will return.(B)
Destruction has been decreed,(C)
    overwhelming and righteous.

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13 (A)And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned[a] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump (B)remains
    when it is felled.”
(C)The holy seed[b] is its stump.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
  2. Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring

13 And though a tenth remains(A) in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.(B)
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps(C) when they are cut down,
    so the holy(D) seed will be the stump in the land.”(E)

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