Isaiah 1:9

New American Bible - revised edition

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a small remnant, We would have become as Sodom, would have resembled Gomorrah.

Cross References

Genesis 18:26

The Lord replied: If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Genesis 18:32

But he persisted: “Please, do not let my Lord be angry if I speak up this last time. What if ten are found there?” For the sake of the ten, he replied, I will not destroy it.

Genesis 19:24

and the Lord rained down sulfur upon Sodom and Gomorrah, fire from the Lord out of heaven.

1 Kings 19:18

But I will spare seven thousand in Israel—every knee that has not bent to Baal, every mouth that has not kissed him.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord, your God, will hear all the words of the commander, whom his lord, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke him for the words which the Lord, your God, has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that is here.”

Isaiah 1:8

And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.

Isaiah 11:11

On that day, The Lord shall again take it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria and Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, and Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the isles of the sea.

Isaiah 11:16

There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, As there was for Israel when it came up from the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 17:6

Only gleanings shall be left in it, as when an olive tree has been beaten— Two or three olives at the very top, four or five on its most fruitful branches— oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, As when an olive tree has been beaten, as with a gleaning when the vintage is done.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants pay for their guilt; Therefore they who dwell on earth have dwindled, and only a few are left.

Isaiah 37:4

Perhaps the Lord, your God, will hear the words of the commander, whom his lord, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke him for the words which the Lord, your God, has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that is here.”

Isaiah 46:3

Hear me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, My burden from the womb, whom I have carried since birth.

Isaiah 6:13

If there remain a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. Holy offspring is the trunk.

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: As when the juice is pressed from a cluster, and someone says, “Do not destroy it, for there is still good in it,” So will I do for the sake of my servants: I will not destroy them all.

Jeremiah 23:14

But among Jerusalem’s prophets I saw something more shocking: Adultery, walking in deception, strengthening the power of the wicked, so that no one turns from evil; To me they are all like Sodom, its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 42:2

approached Jeremiah the prophet and said, “Please grant our petition; pray for us to the Lord, your God, for all this remnant. As you see, only a few of us remain, but once we were many.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days, at that time—oracle of the Lord: The guilt of Israel may be sought, but it no longer exists, the sin of Judah, but it can no longer be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

Lamentations 3:22

The Lord’s acts of mercy are not exhausted, his compassion is not spent;

Lamentations 4:6

The punishment of the daughter of my people surpassed the penalty of Sodom, Which was overthrown in an instant with no hand laid on it.

Ezekiel 14:22

there will still be some survivors in it who will bring out sons and daughters. When they come out to you and you see their ways and their deeds, you shall be consoled regarding the evil I brought on Jerusalem, everything I brought upon it.

Ezekiel 6:8

But I will spare some of you from the sword to live as refugees among the nations when you are scattered to foreign lands.

Amos 4:11

I overthrew you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; you were like a brand plucked from the fire, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard your renown, and am in awe, O Lord, of your work. In the course of years revive it, in the course of years make yourself known; in your wrath remember compassion!

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live— oracle of the Lord of hosts— the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah: A field of weeds, a salt pit, a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the survivors of my nation dispossess them.

Matthew 7:14

How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few. False Prophets.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;

Romans 9:29

And as Isaiah predicted: “Unless the Lord of hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah.” Righteousness Based on Faith.

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

2 Peter 2:6

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [to destruction], reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless [people] of what is coming;

Revelation 11:8

Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified.