(A)If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us (B)a few survivors,
we should have been like (C)Sodom,
    and become like (D)Gomorrah.

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29 And as Isaiah predicted,

(A)(B)“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
    (C)we would have been like Sodom
    and become like Gomorrah.”

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31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah (A)shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 (B)For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. (C)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

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24 Then (A)the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

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22 (A)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[a]
    (B)his mercies never come to an end;

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off

(A)It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for (B)the remnant that is left.’”

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13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
    among the nations,
(A)as when an olive tree is beaten,
    as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

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if by (A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, (B)making them an example of (C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly

But what is God's reply to him? (A)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is (B)a remnant, chosen by grace. (C)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved,

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  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

29 (A)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be (B)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

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14 For the gate is narrow and (A)the way is hard that leads to life, and (B)those who find it are few.

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In the whole land, declares the Lord,
    two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
    (A)and one third shall be left alive.
And (B)I will put this third into the fire,
    and refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call upon my name,
    and (D)I will answer them.
(E)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

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Therefore, (A)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (B)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (C)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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O Lord, (A)I have heard the report of you,
    and (B)your work, O Lord, do I fear.
In the midst of the years (C)revive it;
    in the midst of the years make it known;
    (D)in wrath remember mercy.

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11 “I overthrew some of you,
    (A)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were (B)as a brand[a] plucked out of the burning;
(C)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:11 That is, a burning stick

32 And it shall come to pass that (A)everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (B)For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among (C)the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

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(A)“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations (B)some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,

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(A)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(B)which was overthrown in a moment,
    and no hands were wrung for her.[c]

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  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(A)Gleanings will be left in it,
    as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
    in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
    on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.

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The Remnant of Israel Will Return

20 (A)In that day (B)the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more (C)lean on him who struck them, but (D)will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, (E)to the mighty God. 22 (F)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, (G)only a remnant of them will return. (H)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

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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

18 (A)Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not (B)kissed him.”

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23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and (A)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, (B)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, (C)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—

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32 Then he said, (A)“Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”

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