KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 56
The prophet exhorts to sanctification. He promises it shall be general. His warning.
1So says Jehovah: Keep judgment and do righteousness, for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping sabbath, from defiling it; and keeping his hand from doing every evil.
3And do not let the son of the alien speak, he who joins himself to Jehovah, saying, Separating Jehovah separates me from His people; and not do let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dried up tree.
4For so says Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths and choose things I am pleased with, and take hold of My covenant:
5I, even I will give to them in My house and in My walls a hand and a name better than sons and than daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.
6And the sons of the alien who join themselves on Jehovah to serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be His servants, every one who keeps from defiling the sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant,
7and I will bring them to My holy mount and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be for acceptance on My altar, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples,
8a statement of the Lord Jehovah, who gathers the outcasts of Israel; I will yet gather to him his gathered ones.
9All beasts of the field come to eat, all beasts in the forest!
10His watchmen are blind ones; they all do not know; they are all mute dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber;
11and they are dogs strong of soul; they do not know satisfaction. And they are shepherds; they do not know to discern; they all look to their own way, each one for his own gain, from his own end, saying:
12Come, and let me take wine, and let us gulp down fermented liquor; and tomorrow shall be as this day, great, exceedingly abundant.
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