King James Version
Isaiah 1:9 in the King James Version says “Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been li...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 1:9 · KJV
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. overthrown: Heb. the overthrow of
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.
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.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. he goats: Heb. great he goats
KJV Study — Public Domain
“of hosts”
H6635a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (speci
“had left”
H3498to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively to leave, cause to abound, preserve
“we should have been”
H1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and we should have been like”
H1819to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
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