(A)If the Lord of armies
Had not left us a few (B)survivors,
We would be like (C)Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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A Remnant Will Return

20 Now on that day the (A)remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob (B)who have escaped, will no longer rely on the one who struck them, but will truly (C)rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

21 A (D)remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the (E)mighty God.
22 For (F)though your people, Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A (G)destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

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The Remnant of Israel

20 In that day(A) the remnant of Israel,
    the survivors(B) of Jacob,
will no longer rely(C) on him
    who struck them down(D)
but will truly rely(E) on the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel.(F)
21 A remnant(G) will return,[a](H) a remnant of Jacob
    will return to the Mighty God.(I)
22 Though your people be like the sand(J) by the sea, Israel,
    only a remnant will return.(K)
Destruction has been decreed,(L)
    overwhelming and righteous.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:21 Hebrew shear-jashub (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22

31 The (A)survivors that are (B)left of the house of Judah will again (C)take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 For out of Jerusalem a (D)remnant will go, and out of Mount Zion survivors. The (E)zeal of the Lord of armies will perform this.”’

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31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root(A) below and bear fruit(B) above.
32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(C)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(D)
The zeal(E) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

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(A)Listen to Me, house of Jacob,
And all (B)the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been (C)carried by Me from [a]birth
And have been carried from the womb;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:3 Lit the belly

“Listen(A) to me, you descendants of Jacob,
    all the remnant(B) of the people of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since your birth,(C)
    and have carried(D) since you were born.(E)

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