Isaiah 27:7

"Hath he smitten them as he smote them that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?"

Such questions in Hebrew require negative answers; and this verse means that God's punishments have not been as severe as they might have been. Proof of this is seen in the fact that, whereas, Sodom and Gomorrah were utterly destroyed from the face of the earth for their wickedness; Israel which became `worse than Sodom and Gomorrah' (Ezekiel 16:47), was dealt with much more leniently.