en_tn_lite_do_not_use/isa/01/09.md

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General Information:

Isaiah speaks to the people of Judah in the form of a poem. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)

If Yahweh

This describes something that could have happened in the past but did not. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo)

a small remnant

"a few survivors"

us ... we

Here these words refer to Isaiah and includes all the people of Judah and Jerusalem. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-inclusive)

we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah

How Judah would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah can be made explicit. AT: "God would have destroyed us, like he destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)

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