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href="../isaiah/55.htm" title="Isaiah 55">◄</a> Isaiah 56 <a href="../isaiah/57.htm" title="Isaiah 57">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/56.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Salvation for Foreigners</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Keep justice, and do righteousness,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for soon my salvation will come,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my righteousness be revealed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Blessed is the man who does this,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the son of man who holds it fast,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,</span><br /><span class="indent">and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> say,</span><br /><span class="indent">“The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will surely separate me from his people”;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and let not the eunuch say,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Behold, I am a dry tree.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,</span><br /><span class="indent">who choose the things that please me</span><br /><span class="indent">and hold fast my covenant,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will give in my house and within my walls</span><br /><span class="indent">a monument and a name</span><br /><span class="indent">better than sons and daughters;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will give them an everlasting name</span><br /><span class="indent">that shall not be cut off.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“And the foreigners who join themselves to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">to minister to him, to love the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to be his servants,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,</span><br /><span class="indent">and holds fast my covenant—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">these I will bring to my holy mountain,</span><br /><span class="indent">and make them joyful in my house of prayer;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">their burnt offerings and their sacrifices</span><br /><span class="indent">will be accepted on my altar;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for my house shall be called a house of prayer</span><br /><span class="indent">for all peoples.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“I will gather yet others to him</span><br /><span class="indent">besides those already gathered.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Israel’s Irresponsible Leaders</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All you beasts of the field, come to devour—</span><br /><span class="indent">all you beasts in the forest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His watchmen are blind;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are all without knowledge;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they are all silent dogs;</span><br /><span class="indent">they cannot bark,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">dreaming, lying down,</span><br /><span class="indent">loving to slumber.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The dogs have a mighty appetite;</span><br /><span class="indent">they never have enough.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">But they are shepherds who have no understanding;</span><br /><span class="indent">they have all turned to their own way,</span><br /><span class="indent">each to his own gain, one and all.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/56-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;</span><br /><span class="indent">let us fill ourselves with strong drink;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and tomorrow will be like this day,</span><br /><span class="indent">great beyond measure.”</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a 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