And the daughter of [a]Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged city.

Except the Lord of hosts [b]had reserved unto us even a small remnant, we should have been [c]as Sodom, and should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, O [d]princes of Sodom: hearken unto the Law of our God, O people of Gomorrah.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:8 That is, Jerusalem.
  2. Isaiah 1:9 Because that he will ever have a Church to call upon his Name.
  3. Isaiah 1:9 That is, all destroyed.
  4. Isaiah 1:10 Ye that for your vices deserved all to be destroyed, as they of Sodom, save that God of his mercy reserved a little number, Lam. 3:22.

Daughter Zion(A) is left(B)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(C) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(D)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(E)

10 Hear the word of the Lord,(F)
    you rulers of Sodom;(G)
listen to the instruction(H) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!(I)

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