^22 (A)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, ^(B)only a remnant of them will return. ^(C)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

¹⁷ I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring ^(A)as the stars of heaven and ^(B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess ^(C)the gate of his^[a] enemies,

^10 [a] Yet ^(A)the number of the children of Israel shall be ^(B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^(C)And ^(D)in the place where it was said to them, ^(E)“You are not my people”, it shall be said to them, ^(F)“Children^[b] of ^(G)the living God.”