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TSK · Isaiah 49:25

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I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.

You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you.

For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.