“Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
Isaiah 1:9 (BSB)
Context Reading
7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you — a desolation demolished by strangers. 8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged. 9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah. 10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.