²² Israel, even if your people were as numerous
as the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return.^(A)
Destruction has been decreed;
justice overflows.
²³ For throughout the land
the Lord God of Armies
is carrying out a destruction that was decreed.

Though the number of Israelites
is like the sand of the sea,^(A)
only the remnant will be saved;^(B)
28 since the Lord will execute his sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.^[a][b](C)