9:27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children ¹  of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved, 9:28 for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.” ²  9:29 Just ³  as Isaiah predicted,

“If the Lord of armies ⁴  had not left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

and we would have resembled Gomorrah.” ⁵