English Standard Version

Isaiah 56:1-5 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. Thus says the Lord:“Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come,and my righteousness be revealed.

2. Blessed is the man who does this,and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

3. Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,“The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;and let not the eunuch say,“Behold, I am a dry tree.”

4. For thus says the Lord:“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,who choose the things that please meand hold fast my covenant,

5. I will give in my house and within my wallsa monument and a namebetter than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting namethat shall not be cut off.