7: Your country is desolate, your cities are
burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your
presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8: 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.
9: 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.
remnant
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Strong's Hebrew Lexicon
8300 sariyd saw-reed' from
8277; a survivor:--X
alive, left, remain(- ing), remnant,
rest.
A survivor, remnant, that which is
left - survivor. A survivor, one escaped from a great
slaughter.
8277 sarad saw-rad' a primitive
root; properly, to puncture (Compare 8279), i.e.
(figuratively through the idea of slipping out) to escape or
survive:--remain.
5: O house of
Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6: Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house
of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves
in the children of strangers.
10: Enter into
the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD,
and for the glory of his majesty.
11: The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day.
12: For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon
every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that
is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
18: And the
idols he shall utterly abolish.
19: And they shall go into the holes of the rocks,
and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and
for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth.
20: In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself
to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21: To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the
earth.
22: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his
nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isaiah, chapter 3
1: For, behold,
the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water,
8: For Jerusalem
is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and
their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of
his glory.
9: The shew of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto
themselves.
10: Say ye to the righteous,
that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit
of their doings.
11: Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12: As for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee
cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13: The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the people.
25: Thy men
shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26: And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she
being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
