Jeremiah 44:28

44:28 Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! ¹  Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, ²  mine or theirs.’

Isaiah 4:2

The Branch of the Lord

4:2 At that time ³ 

the crops given by the Lord will bring admiration and honor; ⁴ 

the produce of the land will be a source of pride and delight

to those who remain in Israel. ⁵ 

Isaiah 10:20

10:20 At that time ⁶  those left in Israel, those who remain of the family ⁷  of Jacob, will no longer rely on a foreign leader that abuses them. ⁸  Instead they will truly ⁹  rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁰ 

Romans 9:27

9:27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children ¹¹  of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

Romans 11:5-6

11:5 So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 11:6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

[44:28]  ¹ tn Heb “The survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number [more literally, “men of number”; for the idiom see BDB 709 s.v. מִסְפָּר 1.a].” The term “survivors of the sword” may be intended to represent both those who survive death in war or death by starvation or disease, a synecdoche of species for all three genera.

[44:28]  ² tn Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g).

[4:2]  ³ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the vegetation of the Lord will become beauty and honor.” Many English versions understand the phrase צֶמַח יְהוָה (tsemakh yÿhvah) as a messianic reference and render it, “the Branch of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT, and others). Though צֶמַח (tsemakh) is used by later prophets of a royal descendant (Jer 23;5; 33:15; Zech 3:8; 6:12), those passages contain clear contextual indicators that a human ruler is in view and that the word is being used in a metaphorical way of offspring. However, in Isa 4:2 there are no such contextual indicators. To the contrary, in the parallel structure of the verse צֶמַח יְהוָה corresponds to “produce of the land,” a phrase that refers elsewhere exclusively to literal agricultural produce (see Num 13:20, 26; Deut 1:25). In the majority of its uses צֶמַח refers to literal crops or vegetation (in Ps 65:10 the Lord is the source of this vegetation). A reference to the Lord restoring crops would make excellent sense in Isa 4 and the prophets frequently included this theme in their visions of the future age (see Isa 30:23-24; 32:20; Jer 31:12; Ezek 34:26-29; and Amos 9:13-14).

[4:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the fruit of the land will become pride and beauty for the remnant of Israel.”

[10:20]  ⁶ tn Or “in that day.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[10:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “house” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[10:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “on one who strikes him down.” This individual is the king (“foreign leader”) of the oppressing nation (which NLT specifies as “the Assyrians”).

[10:20]  ⁹ tn Or “sincerely”; KJV, ASV, NAB, NRSV “in truth.”

[10:20]  ¹⁰ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[9:27]  ¹¹ tn Grk “sons.”