Your family would be like the sand. Your children after you would be as many as the grains of sand by the sea. It would be impossible to count them. I would always accept the members of your family line. They would never disappear or be destroyed.”

你的后裔也必多如海沙；你腹中所生的也必多如沙粒。他的名在我面前必不剪除，也不灭绝。”

你的后裔必多如海沙，你腹中所生的必多如沙粒。他的名绝不从我面前剪除，也不灭绝。”

你的后裔必多如海沙，你腹中所生的必多如沙粒。他的名绝不从我面前剪除，也不灭绝。”

你的后裔必多如海沙，你的子孙必像细沙一样不可胜数，他们的名号绝不会从我面前被铲除、被消灭。”

你的后裔必像海沙那么多，你腹中的子孙要如沙粒这样多；他们的名字必不会被剪除，也不会从我面前消灭。

你的后裔也会多如沙粒，你腹中所生的会多如细沙；他们的名号在我面前不会被剪除，也不会被除灭。”

你的後裔也必多如海沙；你腹中所生的也必多如沙粒。他的名在我面前必不剪除，也不滅絕。

你的後裔必多如海沙，你腹中所生的必多如沙粒。他的名絕不從我面前剪除，也不滅絕。」

你的後裔必多如海沙，你腹中所生的必多如沙粒。他的名絕不從我面前剪除，也不滅絕。」

你的後裔必多如海沙，你的子孫必像細沙一樣不可勝數，他們的名號絕不會從我面前被剷除、被消滅。」

你的後裔必像海沙那麼多，你腹中的子孫要如沙粒這樣多；他們的名字必不會被剪除，也不會從我面前消滅。

你的後裔就會多如海沙，你腹中出的子孫就會多如沙粒；你們的名在我面前就不被剪除，不被消滅了。』

你的後裔也會多如沙粒，你腹中所生的會多如細沙；他們的名號在我面前不會被剪除，也不會被除滅。」

爾之後裔、多若塵沙、爾之所出、繁若砂礫、其名不沒、不絕於我前、○

爾之子孫、多若塵沙、爾之苗裔、繁若鱗族、爾之邦國、必不滅絕、歷世靡暨。

爾之後裔、多若塵沙、爾所生者、繁若海之鱗族、鱗族或作細沙其名不絕不滅於我前、

Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”

your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”

Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore— too many to count! There would have been no need for your destruction, or for cutting off your family name.”

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; their name would not be cut off or eliminated from my presence.

Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me.”

thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; their name would not be cut off or eliminated from My presence.

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.

Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Israel, your people might be as many as the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will return. The Lord has handed down a death sentence. He will destroy his people. What he does is right.

So I will certainly bless you. I will make the children born into your family as many as the stars in the sky. I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. They will take over the cities of their enemies.

“ But the time will come when the people of Israel will be like the sand on the seashore. It can’t be measured or counted. Now it is said about them,‘ You are not my people.’ But at that time they will be called‘ children of the living God.’

Here is what I will do for my servant David. And here is what I will do for the Levites who serve me. I will make their children after them as many as the stars in the sky. And I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. It will be impossible to count them.”

May their family line come to an end. May their names be forgotten by those who live after them.

I will make them like the dust of the earth. Can dust be counted? If it can, then your family can be counted.

I’ve also taken Ruth, who is from Moab, to become my wife. She is Mahlon’s widow. I’ve decided to marry her so the dead man’s name will stay with his property. Now his name won’t disappear from his family line or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

“ I will reach out my powerful hand against Judah. I will punish all those who live in Jerusalem. I will destroy from this place what is left of Baal worship. The priests who serve other gods will be removed.

Then I will remove Israel from the land. It is the land I gave them. I will turn my back on this temple. I will do it even though I have set it apart for my Name to be there. Then Israel will be hated by all the nations. They will laugh and joke about Israel.

“ I will make new heavens and a new earth. And they will last forever,” announces the Lord.“ In the same way, your name and your children after you will last forever.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel. He says,“ The number of people from Israel may be like the sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be saved.

For the honor of my own name I wait to show my anger. I hold it back from you so people will continue to praise me. I do not want to destroy you completely.

“ I will rise up against them,” announces the Lord who rules over all.“ I will destroy Babylon. It will not be remembered anymore. No one will be left alive there. I will destroy its people and their children after them,” announces the Lord.

You have punished the nations. You have destroyed evil people. You have erased their names from your book for ever and ever.

The Canaanites will hear about it. So will everyone else in the country. They will surround us. They’ll erase any mention of our name from the face of the earth. Then what will you do when people don’t honor your great name anymore?”

So he will cut off from Israel heads and tails alike. In a single day he will cut off palm branches and tall grass alike. The palm branches are the people who rule over others. The tall grass is the people who bow down to them.

Then I will set up a monument in the area of my temple. Their names will be written on it. That will be better for them than having sons and daughters. The names of the eunuchs will be remembered forever. They will never be forgotten.