A SURVIVOR, one left over — from a root meaning to escape or be left. Isaiah 1:9 is the book's first touch of what becomes its great theme, the REMNANT: 'had Jehovah of armies not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom.' It is not consoling here — it is the measure of how close the end came. Isaiah names his own son Shear-Yashub, 'a remnant will return' (7:3), and the idea runs from there to the end of the book. → first discussed at Isaiah 1:9