Isaiah 56

1Yahweh says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.Cross-references: Ps 24:4 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 85:9 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 26:7 · Isa 46:13 · +12 more

2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”Cross-references: Ex 20:8 · Ex 20:10 · Ex 31:13 · Lev 19:30 · Neh 13:17 · Ps 1:1 · +25 more

3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”Cross-references: Num 18:4 · Num 18:7 · Deut 23:1 · Isa 14:1 · Isa 39:7 · Isa 56:5 · +23 more

4For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,Cross-references: Josh 24:15 · 2Sam 23:5 · Ps 119:111 · Isa 27:5 · Isa 55:3 · Isa 56:2 · +4 more

5I will give them 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 will not be cut off.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:8 · Isa 26:1 · Isa 48:19 · Isa 55:13 · Isa 60:18 · Isa 62:12 · +8 more

6Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,Cross-references: Isa 44:5 · Isa 56:2 · Isa 58:13 · Isa 60:10 · Isa 61:5 · Jer 50:5 · +12 more

7I will bring these 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 will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 66:19 · Mic 4:1 · Zech 8:3 · Mal 1:11 · +12 more

8The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 106:47 · Ps 107:2 · Ps 147:2 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 27:12 · +16 more

9All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.Cross-references: Deut 28:26 · Isa 18:6 · Jer 12:9 · Ezek 29:5 · Ezek 39:17 · Rev 19:17

10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.Cross-references: Prov 6:4 · Prov 24:30 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 52:8 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 6:13 · +15 more

11Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.Cross-references: Ex 23:3 · 1Sam 2:12 · 1Sam 2:29 · Eccl 5:10 · Isa 1:3 · Isa 57:17 · +24 more

12“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”Cross-references: Ps 10:6 · Prov 23:35 · Prov 27:1 · Prov 31:4 · Isa 5:11 · Isa 5:22 · +11 more