Isaiah 56

1Thus says Yahweh: Keep justice and do righteousness, for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

2Blessed is anyone who does this, and the son of man who holds fast to it—who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

3Let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say, "Yahweh will surely separate me from his people," nor let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

4For thus says Yahweh to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose what I delight in, and hold fast to my covenant.

5I will give them in my house and in my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

6And the sons of the foreigners who cleave to Yahweh to serve him and love his name, to become his servants—every one who guards the Sabbath from defiling it and holds firmly to my covenant;

7I will bring them to my holy mountain and cause them to rejoice in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be pleasing on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

8The Lord Yahweh who gathers Israel's outcasts declares: "I will yet gather others to him, alongside those gathered to him."

9All beasts of the field, come devour—all beasts in the forest.

10His watchmen are blind—all undiscerning, all silent dogs unable to bark, sleepers lying down, lovers of slumber.

11And the dogs are greedy of appetite, they know no satisfaction; they are shepherds who do not know discernment: all of them look to their own way, each man to his gain from his quarter.

12Come, I will get wine, and we will satisfy ourselves with strong drink; tomorrow will be like this day, great and exceedingly abundant.