Isaiah 56

1This is what Yahweh says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is about to come, and my righteousness is about to be revealed.

2Blessed is the person who does this, the human being who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

3Do not let the foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; and do not let the eunuch say, “Look, I am only a dry tree.”

4For this is what Yahweh says: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant,

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

6And the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, to love the name of Yahweh, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and hold fast to my covenant—

7these I will bring 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.

8The Lord Yahweh declares, he who gathers the outcasts of Israel: I will gather still others to him, besides those already gathered.

9All you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!

10Israel’s watchmen are blind; they all lack knowledge. They are all mute dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to sleep.

11The dogs have a fierce appetite; they never have enough. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, every last one.

12“Come,” they say, “let me get wine, and let us drink our fill of strong drink. Tomorrow will be like today, and even far better.”