Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: 'Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now grow pale, establishing that God, who had redeemed Abraham and entered into covenant with Jacob, will complete that redemptive purpose for Jacob's descendants despite their present failures and shame. The invocation of the ancestral redemption grounds the promise in covenantal history and suggests continuity between the past redemption and the future restoration. The assertion that Jacob will not be ashamed or grow pale suggests the restoration of dignity and vitality that the people have lost through judgment. The oracle connects the threatened descendants to their ancestors and to God's covenantal faithfulness to those ancestors. The promise suggests that despite judgment and humiliation, the restoration to honor is assured by God's commitment to the covenantal relationship.

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