Isa 56
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Thus says YHWH, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to
come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
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Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that holds it fast; that keeps
the sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
3
Neither let the foreigner, that has joined himself to YHWH, speak, saying, YHWH will
surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry
tree.
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For thus says YHWH of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that
please me, and hold fast my covenant:
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To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than
of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be
cut off.
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Also the foreigners that join themselves to YHWH, to minister to him, and to love
the name of YHWH, to be his servants, every one that keeps the sabbath from profaning
it, and holds fast my covenant;
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even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer:
their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for
my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
8
The Lord YHWH, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather [others]
to him, besides his own that are gathered.
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All you beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all you beasts in the forest.
10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they
cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that
cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from
every quarter.
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Come you, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.