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Your country is deserted,
    your cities burned with fire;
    your land—strangers are devouring it in plain sight.
    It’s a wasteland, as when foreigners raid.
Daughter Zion is left like a small shelter in a vineyard,
    like a hut in a cucumber field,
    like a city besieged.[a]
If the Lord of heavenly forces had not spared a few of us,
    we would be like Sodom; we would resemble Gomorrah.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:8 LXX, Vulg; MT spared

Your country is desolate,(A)
    your cities burned with fire;(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(D)
Daughter Zion(E) is left(F)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(G) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(H)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(I)

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