## a small remnant ##

This can be translated as "a few survivors."

## If Yahweh ##

Verse 9 describes something that could have happened in the past but did not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])

## Yahweh of Hosts  ##

"Yahweh, the Leader of the angel armies,"

## 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: "we would have all been destroyed, like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed." (UDB) (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])