Isaiah 65:8

"Thus saith Jehovah, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me."

The terse message of these verses is: Yes, Israel shall indeed be destroyed, but not all of them. Those who shall inherit God's holy mountain shall be those, and only those, who have "sought" the Lord (Isaiah 65:10).

"Destroy it not ..." (Isaiah 65:8). "The vintagers when they see a cluster with only a few sound grapes in it say, `Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it,' so for the sake of those who are faithful to God,"[13] he will not destroy all of Israel. Kidner noted that in this passage Isaiah united the themes of "The Righteous Remnant," and that of "The Vineyard,"[14] joining many other scholars in stressing the evidences of the unity of the whole prophecy. On this verse, Hailey wrote that, "The Canaanites were cast out of the land because of moral corruption (Deuteronomy 9:3-5); and Israel would retain it only upon the condition of their faithfulness to God (Leviticus 18:24-30; Deuteronomy 4:37-40)."[15]