1. Thus says the Lord:“Keep justice, and do righteousness,For My salvation is about to come,And My righteousness to be revealed.
2. Blessed is the man who does this,And the son of man who lays hold on it;Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3. Do not let the son of the foreignerWho has joined himself to the LordSpeak, saying,“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;Nor let the eunuch say,“Here I am, a dry tree.”
4. For thus says the Lord:“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,And choose what pleases Me,And hold fast My covenant,
5. Even to them I will give in My houseAnd within My walls a place and a nameBetter than that of sons and daughters;I will give them an everlasting nameThat shall not be cut off.
6. “Also the sons of the foreignerWho join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,And holds fast My covenant—