And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.

And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.

surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "If the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

For My own sake will I show you My wrath, and will bring before you My glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.

So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day;

And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed; thus says the Lord.

And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do [for] Your great name?

Moreover I have bought for myself for a wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; so the name of the dead shall not be destroyed from among his brothers, and from the tribe of his people: you [are] witnesses this day.

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to My name I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations.

You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; You have blotted out their name forever, even forever and ever.

Let his children be [given up] to utter destruction; in one generation let his name be blotted out.

And I will stretch out My hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will remove the names of Baal out of this place, and the names of the priests;