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1Thus says theLord:
    Maintain justice, and do what is right,
for soon my salvation will come,
    and my deliverance be revealed.

2Happy is the mortal who does this,
    the one who holds it fast,
who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it,
    and refrains from doing any evil.

3Do not let the foreigner joined to theLord say,
    “TheLord will surely separate me from his people”;
and do not let the eunuch say,
    “I am just a dry tree.”
4For thus says theLord:
To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me
    and hold fast my covenant,
5I will give, in my house and within my walls,
    a monument and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off.

6And the foreigners who join themselves to theLord,
    to minister to him, to love the name of theLord,
    and to be his servants,
all who keep the sabbath, and do not profane it,
    and hold fast my covenant—
7these I will bring to my holy mountain,
    and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
    will be accepted on my altar;
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
    for all peoples.
8Thus says the LordGod,
    who gathers the outcasts of Israel,
I will gather others to them
    besides those already gathered.[a]

9All you wild animals,
    all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!
10Israel’s[b] sentinels are blind,
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
    that cannot bark;
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.
11The dogs have a mighty appetite;
    they never have enough.
The shepherds also have no understanding;
    they have all turned to their own way,
    to their own gain, one and all.
12“Come,” they say, “let us[c] get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink.
And tomorrow will be like today,
    great beyond measure.”

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 56:8Hebbesides his gathered ones
2. Isaiah 56:10HebHis
3. Isaiah 56:12Q Ms Syr Vg Tg: MTme