Isa 56 | EngLXX | STEP | Thus says the Lord, Keep you⌃ judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come,and my mercy to be revealed.

Isaiah 56

1 Thus says the Lord, Keep you⌃ judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come,and my mercy to be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps thesabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness. 3 Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separateme from his people: and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree. 4 Thus says the Lord to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep my sabbaths, and choose the thingswhich I take pleasure in, and take hold of my covenant; 5 I will give to them in my house and within my walls an honorable place, better than sonsand daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail. 6 AndI will give it to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to lovethe name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; andas for all that keep my sabbaths from profaningthem, and that take hold of my covenant; 7 I will bring them to my holy mountain, and gladden them in my house of prayer: their whole burnt offeringsand their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayerfor all nations, 8 says the Lord that gathers the dispersed of Israel; for I will gather to him a congregation. 9 All you⌃ beasts of the field, come, devour, all you⌃ beasts of the forest. 10 See how they are all blinded: they have not known;they are dumb dogsthat will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked,having no understanding: all have followed their own ways, each according to hiswill.