²² Though your people be like the sand^(A) by the sea, Israel,
    only a remnant will return.^(B)
Destruction has been decreed,^(C)
    overwhelming and righteous.

² look to Abraham,^(A) your father,
    and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was only one man,
    and I blessed him and made him many.^(B)