When there is no guidance ¹  a nation falls, but there is success ²  in the abundance of counselors.

For a short time your special ¹  nation possessed a land, ²  but then our adversaries knocked down ³  your holy sanctuary.

There are times, Jeremiah, ¹  when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom. ² 

But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, ¹  I will cancel the destruction ²  I intended to do to it.

For I, the Lord, promise: “David will never lack a successor to occupy ¹  the throne over the nation of Israel. ² 

For the Lord says, “Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab. ¹ 

Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation, ¹  because she has vaunted herself against the Lord.

therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the sovereign Lord.

and not for the Jewish nation ¹  only, ²  but to gather together ³  into one the children of God who are scattered.) ⁴ 

but in every nation ¹  the person who fears him ²  and does what is right ³  is welcomed before him.

Then I will make you ¹  into a great nation, and I will bless you, ²  and I will make your name great, ³  so that you will exemplify divine blessing. ⁴ 

After all, Abraham ¹  will surely become ²  a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another ³  using his name.

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

May the sovereign God ¹  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! ²  Then you will become ³  a large nation. ⁴ 

and you will be to me ¹  a kingdom of priests ²  and a holy nation.’ ³  These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

So now, leave me alone ¹  so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

For I will honor you greatly, ¹  and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”

Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. ¹  From there he saw the extent of the nation.