Unless Adonai-Tzva’ot had left us a small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, we would have been as Gomorrah.
Isaiah 24:13 - Tree of Life Version So will it be in the earth and among the nations, as when shaking an olive tree, or as when gleanings are left after the 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. |
Unless Adonai-Tzva’ot had left us a small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, we would have been as Gomorrah.
Now in that day Jacob’s glory will fade, and the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
It will come about in that day, Adonai will thresh from the channel of the River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, Bnei-Yisrael.
Though a tenth still be in it, it will again be burned. As a terebinth tree or as an oak whose stump remains when cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump.”
Those escaping the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah only few in number. Then the remnant of Judah who entered the land of Egypt to sojourn there, will know whose word stands up—Mine or theirs!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
Those survivors who escape will head for the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very corners of your field, nor are you to gather the gleanings of your harvest.
“I will surely gather Jacob—all of you! I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock within its pasture. They will be noisy with people.
Woe is me! For I am like gatherings of produce in summer, like gleanings of a vineyard. There is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that I crave.
And unless those days were cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be cut short.
“But still, you have a few people in Sardis who have not stained their clothes. They will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy.