Yeshayah 56

¹Thus saith Hashem :

Be shomer over mishpat, and do tzedakah (righteousness) ;

for My Yeshu'ah (salvation) is near to come,

and My tzedakah to be revealed.

²Ashrei enosh that doeth this,

and the ben adam that layeth hold on it;

that is shomer Shabbos avoiding chillul Shabbos,

and is shomer to keep his yad from doing kol rah.

³Neither let the ben hanekhar,

that hath joined himself to Hashem , speak, saying:

Hashem hath utterly separated me from His people;

neither let the saris say:

See, I am an etz yavesh (dry tree) .

⁴For thus saith Hashem

unto the sarisim that are shomer Shabbos over My Shabbatot,

and choose the things that please Me,

and hold fast to My Brit:

⁵Even unto them will I give in Mine Bais[#56:5 HaMikdash]

within My chomot a yad vashem tov

better than of banim and of banot;

I will give them a Shem Olam,

that shall not be yikaret (cut off) .

⁶Also the bnei hanekhar, that join themselves to Hashem

to minister unto Him,

and l'ahavah es Shem Hashem ,

to be His avadim,

every one that is shomer Shabbos avoiding chillul Shabbos,

and holds fast My Brit;

⁷Even them will I bring to My Har Kodesh,

and make them have simcha in My Bais Tefillah;

their olot and their zevakhim

shall be accepted upon Mine Mizbe'ach;

for Mine Bais shall be called

Bais Tefillah l'khol HaAmim (House of Prayer for All Nations) .

⁸Thus says Adonoi Hashem ,

Who gathereth the Nidchei Yisroel (the outcasts of Israel, i.e., those being divinely gathered back from the Golus) :

Yet will I gather others,

besides those that are already gathered.

⁹All ye animals of the wild, come to devour,

yes, all ye animals in the ya'ar (forest) .

¹⁰His tzof (watchmen, sentinels, nevi'im) are ivrim (blind) ;

they all lack da'as,

they are all kelavim illemim (mute watchdogs) that cannot bark;

lying around dreaming, they love to slumber.

¹¹Yes, they are kelavim azei nefesh (hungry dogs) never satisfied,

and they are ro'im (shepherds) with no da'as;

they all look to their own way,

every one having his end fixated on his own gain.

¹²Come ye, say they, I will get yayin,

and we will fill ourselves with shechar (strong drink) ;

and makhar (tomorrow) shall be like this day,

and gadol yeter me'od (and even much better) .