In G-d's arms. The Talmud tells us that there are actually seven books of the Torah. Not only that, but the above two verses constitute an entire book by themselves. What we know as the book of Bamidbar really consists of three separate books. When the Jewish People are hounded from one country to another, in peril of their lives, Moshe prays that Hashem will not let His people be destroyed.
Rest brings complacency.
We forget Who it is who really protects us, placing our trust instead in politicians, in mere mortals who cannot save us. In the seeming calm of post-war acceptance, there will be a generation of people who have no desire to be Jewish, and no idea what it means to be Jewish. It is to this generation that Moshe turns his prayer to G-d, beseeching Him to return the myriad thousands who have been swallowed up and assimilated amongst the nations. Thus, it is in keeping with this week's Parsha, which describes the command to prepare and light the candles of the menorah in the Sanctuary. Zecharia's prophecy begins with Yehoshua, the kohen gadol , who served in the early years of the Second Temple.