Thus saith the LORD, 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' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
As the new wine is found in the cluster - As if some grapes having good wine-producing juice in them be found in a cluster which the vine-dresser was about to throw away as bad.
And (one) saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing (is) in it. "A blessing" - i:e., good wine-producing juice (cf. Judges 9:13; Joel 2:14).
So will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. God will spare the godly 'remnant,' while the ungodly mass of the nation shall be destroyed (Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 10:21; Isaiah 11:11-16).
My servants - the godly remnant. But Horsley, 'for the sake of my servant, Messiah.' So the Septuagint and Arabic translate singular.