Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate like the overthrow of [a]strangers.

And the daughter of [b]Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged city.

Except the Lord of hosts [c]had reserved unto us even a small remnant, we should have been [d]as Sodom, and should have been like unto Gomorrah.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:7 Meaning, of them that dwell far off, which because they look for no advantage of that which remaineth destroy all before them.
  2. Isaiah 1:8 That is, Jerusalem.
  3. Isaiah 1:9 Because that he will ever have a Church to call upon his Name.
  4. Isaiah 1:9 That is, all destroyed.

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