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1 This is what the LORD says: “Keep justice and do righteousness, for my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this, the son of man who holds fast to it, who keeps the Sabbath from 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.”
Let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”
4 For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose what pleases me, and hold fast to my covenant,
5 I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters.
I will give him an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to serve him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath from profaning it and hold fast to my covenant—
7 I will bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather still others to him, besides those already gathered to him.”
9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts in the forest!
10 His watchmen are blind;
none of them knows.
They are all mute dogs, unable to bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 The dogs are greedy and never know satisfaction.
They are shepherds who do not understand;
all have turned to their own way, each to his own gain, every last one.
12 “Come, I will get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink.
Tomorrow will be like today, even more abundant.”