<p class="poetry">If I tried to count them,p> <p class="poetry">they would outnumber the grains of sand.p> <p class="poetry">Even if I finished counting them,p> <p class="poetry">I would still have to contend with you.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Then I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own home,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He rained down meat on them like dust,p> <p class="poetry">birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,p> <p class="poetry">but vexation<n id="1" /> by a fool is more burdensome<n id="2" /> than the two of them.p>

He looked this way and that<n id="1" /> and saw that no one was there,<n id="2" /> and then he attacked<n id="3" /> the Egyptian and concealed the body<n id="4" /> in the sand.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

<p class="poetry">But because it is heavier<n id="1" /> than the sand<n id="2" /> of the sea,p> <p class="poetry">that is why my words have been wild.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your children<n id="2" /> like its granules.p> <p class="poetry">Their name would not have been cut offp> <p class="poetry">and eliminated from my presence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">All of them intend<n id="1" /> to do violence;p> <p class="poetry">every face is determined.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.<n id="3" />p>

But you<n id="1" /> said, &#8216;I will certainly make you prosper<n id="2" /> and will make<n id="3" /> your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea,<n id="1" /> until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.p>

<p class="poetry">They will summon peoples to the mountain,p> <p class="poetry">there they will sacrifice proper<n id="1" /> sacrifices;p> <p class="poetry">for they will enjoy<n id="2" /> the abundance of the seas,p> <p class="poetry">and the hidden treasures of the shores.<n id="3" />p>

These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.<n id="1" />

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts.<n id="1" /> Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

<p class="bodytext">God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding<n id="1" /> was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.

For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as<n id="1" /> the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back.<n id="2" /> Destruction has been decreed;<n id="3" /> just punishment<n id="4" /> is about to engulf you.<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">Their widows will become in my sight more numerous<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">than the grains of sand on the seashores.p> <p class="poetry">At noontime I will bring a destroyerp> <p class="poetry">against the mothers of their young men.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will cause anguish<n id="3" /> and terrorp> <p class="poetry">to fall suddenly upon them.<n id="4" />p>

I will indeed bless you,<n id="1" /> and I will greatly multiply<n id="2" /> your descendants<n id="3" /> so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession<n id="4" /> of the strongholds<n id="5" /> of their enemies.

<p class="bodytext">For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000<n id="1" /> chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven.

My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba &#8211; in number like the sand by the sea! &#8211; be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.