^{27 Ref} And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

^{28 Ref} for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

^{29 Ref} and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'