“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.

“The deliverer will come from Zion;
    he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,^(A)
    only the remnant will be saved.^(B)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^[a](C)

“Unless the Lord Almighty^(D)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”^[b](E)

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(A) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(B)
9 “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(C) is shaken in a sieve,^(D)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(E)

¹¹ I am with you^(A) and will save you,’
    declares the Lord.
‘Though I completely destroy all the nations
    among which I scatter you,
    I will not completely destroy^(B) you.
I will discipline^(C) you but only in due measure;
    I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’^(D)

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)