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Isaiah 56:2
Blessed is the man who does this,
from Salvation for Foreigners, Isaiah 56:1-8
What it says

Blessing belongs to the one who keeps the Sabbath and restrains his hand from evil.

What it is doing

This verse identifies covenant obedience as the path of blessedness.

In context

1This is what the LORD says: 2Blessed is the man who does this, 3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, 4For this is what the LORD says: 5I will give them, in My house and within My walls, 6And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD 7I will bring them to My holy mountain 8Thus declares the Lord GOD,