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Warnings for Jerusalem

The city of Jerusalem[a] is now like an empty shed left in a vineyard. It is like an old straw hut abandoned in a field of cucumbers or like a city surrounded by enemies. If the Lord All-Powerful had not allowed a few people to live, we would have been destroyed completely like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And that almost happened!

10 You officers of Sodom, listen to the Lord’s message. You people of Gomorrah,[b] listen to God’s teaching.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:8 city of Jerusalem Literally, “daughter Zion.” See “Zion” in the Word List.
  2. Isaiah 1:10 officers of Sodom … Gomorrah Here, this refers to leaders and people from Judah.

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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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

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