If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
9. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us Here he concludes what he had formerly declared concerning God’s chastisements, that the desolation which shall take place — or rather which is present, and which they now behold — may be compared to the destruction of Sodom, were it not that the Lord snatched as it were from the burning a very small remnant.
The inanimate creatures, the lights of heaven, the fruitfulness of the earth, shame this stupid, senseless people into silence; they obey their Creator while Israel rebels. This is ingratitude of the highest kind: God nourished and exalted them as His children, and they turned against Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 1:2-9
Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant,.... This is an instance of the super abounding goodness of the Lord of hosts, as the Targum expresses it; that he should, in those very wicked and calamitous times, leave and reserve a few from being defiled with the sins of the age, and from being involved in the general calamity of...