1Thus says Yahweh: “Keep justice 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 humanity who holds fast to it: keeping the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeping his hand from doing any evil.”
3Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people,” and let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”
4For thus says Yahweh: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths and choose what I delight in and hold fast to my covenant,
5I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; an everlasting name I will give them that will not be cut off.
6And the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to minister to him and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants—everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it and holds 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 upon my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.
8Declaration of the Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel: “I will gather yet others to him, besides those already gathered.”
9All you beasts of the field, come to devour—all you beasts in the forest!
10His watchmen are blind, all of them; they know nothing. They are all mute dogs unable to bark—dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
11And the dogs are greedy of appetite; they never know satisfaction. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; they all turn to their own way, each to his unjust gain, one and all.
12“Come,” they say, “let me fetch wine, and let us guzzle strong drink; and tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure!”
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