Isaiah 56
The Lord commands to preserve judgment and accomplish justice, and those who keep the Sabbath and hold to His covenant will be blessed. The Lord also promises to give a place in His house and an everlasting name to the eunuchs and foreigners who worship Him and keep His covenant. In contrast, the watchmen and shepherds of Israel are blind, ignorant, and corrupt, seeking only their own gain and pleasure.
1Thus says the Lord: Preserve judgment, and accomplish justice. For my salvation is close to its arrival, and my justice is close to being revealed2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds to this, keeping the Sabbath and not profaning it, guarding his hands and not doing any evil3And let not the son of the new arrival, who adheres to the Lord, speak, saying, "The Lord will divide and separate me from his people." And let not the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree.4For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs: They will keep my Sabbaths, and they will choose the things that I will, and they will hold to my covenant5I will give them a place in my house, within my walls, and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, which will never perish6And the sons of the new arrival, who adhere to the Lord so as to worship him and to love his name, shall be his servants: all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it, and who hold to my covenant7I will lead them to my holy mountain, and I will gladden them in my house of prayer. Their holocausts and their victims will be pleasing to me upon my altar. For my house will be called the house of prayer for all peoples8The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, says: Even now, I will gather his congregation to him9All beasts of the field, all the beasts of the forest: approach and devour10His watchmen are all blind. They are all ignorant. They are mute dogs without the ability to bark, seeing empty things, sleeping and loving dreams11And these very imprudent dogs have never known satisfaction. The shepherds themselves do not know understanding. All have turned aside in their own way, each one to his own avarice, from the highest even to the least12"Come, let us take wine, and be filled by inebriation. And as it is today, so shall it be tomorrow and for a long time.
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