# your people, Israel, are "your people, O Israel, are" # are like the sand of the seashore "are too many to count, like the sand on the seashore" # Destruction is decreed "Yahweh has decreed that he will destroy most of those who live in Israel" # as overflowing righteousness demands "This must be done for the sake of perfect righteousness" or "Yahweh must do this because he is completely righteous"