Romans 9:29

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

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WEBBE

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

BSB

It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

KJV

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

ASV

And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.

BBE

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

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καὶ kai And G2532 καθὼς kathōs even as G2531 προείρηκεν proeirēken has foretold G4280 Ἠσαΐας Ēsaias Isaiah G2268 εἰ ei only G1487 μὴ mē unless G3361 κύριος kurios [the] Lord G2962 σαβαὼθ sabaōth of Hosts G4519 ἐγκατέλιπεν egkatelipen had left G1459 ἡμῖν hēmin us G3165 σπέρμα sperma descendants G4690 ὡς hōs like G5613 Σόδομα Sodoma Sodom G4670 ἂν an then G302 ἐγενήθημεν egenēthēmen we should have become G1096 καὶ kai and G2532 ὡς hōs like G5613 Γόμορρα Gomorra Gomorrah G1116 ἂν an then would G302 ὡμοιώθημεν.¶ hōmoiōthēmen we have been made G3666

The early church

"And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and had been made like unto Gomorrha." Here again he shows another thing, that not even those few were saved from their own resources. For they too would have perished, and met with Sodom's fate, that is, they would have had to undergo utter destruction (for they of Sodom were also destroyed root and branch, and left not even the slightest remnant of themselves,) and they too, he means, would have been like these, unless God had used much kindness to them, and had saved them by faith. And this happened also in the case of the visible captivity, the majority having been taken away captive and perished, and some few only being saved.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Romans

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 25–29

The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It is a wonder of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those left to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, had perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us. Even among the vast number of professing Christians it is to be feared that only a remnant will be saved.

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Isaiah 1:9

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.