If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
Isaiah 24:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For so shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking and beating of an olive tree, or as the gleaning when the vintage is done [and only a small amount of the fruit remains]. American Standard Version (1901) For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. Common English Bible It will be like this in the central part of the land and among the peoples, like an olive tree that has been shaken, like remains from the grape harvest. Catholic Public Domain Version For so shall it be in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people: it is as if the few remaining olives are being shaken from the olive tree, and it is like a few clusters of grapes, when the grape harvest has already ended. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain should be shaken out of the olive-tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended. |
If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
On that day the splendour of Jacob will fade, and his healthy body will become emaciated.
On that day the Lord will thresh corn from the River Euphrates as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
Though a tenth will remain in the land, it will be burned again. Like the terebinth or the oak that leaves a stump when felled, the holy seed is the stump.
Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to stay there for a while, will know whose word stands, mine or theirs!
The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains. Like doves of the valley, all of them will moan, each over his own iniquity.
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
I will indeed gather all of you, Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the middle of its pasture. It will be noisy with people.
How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.
Unless those days were cut short, no one would be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.
But you have a few people in Sardis who have not defiled their clothes, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.