# General Information:

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

# If Yahweh of hosts had not left for us a few survivors

This describes something that could have happened in the past but did not. Yahweh actually did leave a few survivors. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hypo]])

# us ... we

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

# 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. Alternate translation: "God would have destroyed us, like he destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])