For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a linden tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them when they drop their leaves: so the holy people shall be the substance thereof.
Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any who executes justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
And I sought for a man among them that would build up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it: but I found none.