9Except 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.
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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.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: …
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-9)We will hope to meet with a brighter and more pleasant scene before we come to the end of this book; but truly here, in the beginning of it, every thing looks very bad, very black, with Judah and Jerusalem. What is the wilderness of the world, if the church, the vineyard, has such a dismal aspect as this? I. The prophet, though he speaks in God’s name, yet, despairing to gain audience with the chi…
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