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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Covenant Extended to All Who Obey</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Maintain justice, and do what is right,</span></span><br /><span class="text">for soon my salvation will come,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my deliverance be revealed.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Happy is the mortal who does this,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the one who holds it fast,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and refrains from doing any evil.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Do not let the foreigner joined to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> say,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">“The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will surely separate me from his people”;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and do not let the eunuch say,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">“I am just a dry tree.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who choose the things that please me</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and hold fast my covenant,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>I will give, in my house and within my walls,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a monument and a name</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">better than sons and daughters;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will give them an everlasting name</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that shall not be cut off.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And the foreigners who join themselves to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to minister to him, to love the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and to be his servants,</span></span><br /><span class="text">all who keep the sabbath, and do not profane it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and hold fast my covenant—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>these I will bring to my holy mountain,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and make them joyful in my house of prayer;</span></span><br /><span class="text">their burnt offerings and their sacrifices</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">will be accepted on my altar;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for my house shall be called a house of prayer</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for all peoples.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who gathers the outcasts of Israel,</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will gather others to them</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">besides those already gathered.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22648a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Corruption of Israel’s Rulers</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>All you wild animals,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Israel’s<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22650b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> sentinels are blind,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they are all without knowledge;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they are all silent dogs</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that cannot bark;</span></span><br /><span class="text">dreaming, lying down,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">loving to slumber.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The dogs have a mighty appetite;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they never have enough.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The shepherds also have no understanding;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they have all turned to their own way,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to their own gain, one and all.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“Come,” they say, “let us<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22652c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> get wine;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let us fill ourselves with strong drink.</span></span><br /><span class="text">And tomorrow will be like today,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">great beyond measure.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 56:8">Isaiah 56:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>besides his gathered ones</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 56:10">Isaiah 56:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>His</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 56:12">Isaiah 56:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms Syr Vg Tg: MT <i>me</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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