Isaiah 56

Salvation for the Nations

¹Thus says the Lord :

Preserve justice

and do righteousness,

for My salvation is about to come

and My righteousness to be revealed.

²Blessed is the man who does this,

and the son of man who takes hold of it,

who keeps from polluting the Sabbath

and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

³Do not let the son of the foreigner

who has joined himself to the Lord

speak, saying,

“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;

do not let the eunuch say,

“Behold, I am a dry tree.”

⁴For thus says the Lord :

To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,

and choose the things that please Me,

and take hold of My covenant,

⁵to them I will give in My house and within My walls

a memorial, and a name

better than that of sons and of daughters;

I will give them an everlasting name

that shall not be cut off.

⁶Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord

to serve Him,

and to love the name of the Lord ,

and to be His servants,

to everyone who keeps from polluting the Sabbath

and takes hold of My covenant,

⁷even them I will bring to My holy mountain

and make them joyful in My house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices

shall be accepted on My altar;

for My house shall be called

a house of prayer for all people.

⁸The Lord God

who gathers the outcasts of Israel says,

Yet I will gather others to them

besides those who already are gathered to him.

God Accuses the Wicked

⁹All you beasts of the field,

all you beasts in the forest, come to devour.

¹⁰His watchmen are blind;

they all are ignorant;

they all are dumb dogs,

unable to bark;

sleepers lying down,

who love to slumber.

¹¹They are greedy dogs

which can never have enough,

and they are shepherds who cannot understand;

they all turn to their own way,

every one for his gain, from his territory.

¹²“Come,” they say, “let us get wine,

and let us fill ourselves with strong drink;

and tomorrow shall be as today,

only more so.”