Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
⛓ Read Isaiah 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
v.29, formula-marked ('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' is a verbatim LXX quotation. Reinforces that survival rests entirely on God's gracious preservation of a remnant 'seed.'
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's self-identification as 'foremost' of sinners yet shown mercy recalls the prophetic remnant spared by the LORD's grace despite Sodom-like guilt. The pattern of mercy preserving the unworthy underlies the testimony. Marked low as a diffuse echo.
Low confidence