“Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.”
The promise that Jacob's children 'shall be as formerly' asserts continuity between pre-exilic Israel and the restored people. Yet 'restoration' implies transformation; the people will be refined and humbled by suffering. God establishing their congregation underscores that restoration is God's work, not human political maneuvering.
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