Salvation for Foreigners

1Thus says YHWH:

“Keep justice and do what is right,

for near is My salvation to arriving,

and My righteousness to being revealed.

2Blessed is the man who does this,

and the son of man who grabs hold of it,

keeping the Sabbath from being profaned,

and keeping his hand from doing any evil.”

3Let no son of the foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH speak, saying,

“YHWH will surely separate me from His people.”

And let the eunuch not say,

“Behold, I am a dry tree.”

4For thus says YHWH:

“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,

and choose what I delight in,

and hold fast to My covenant:

5And will I give to them in My house and within My walls

a place and a name

better than sons and daughters—

an everlasting name I will give to them,

that will not be cut off.

6And the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to YHWH

to serve Him

and to love the name of YHWH,

to be His servants,

all keeping the Sabbath from being profaned

and holding firmly to My covenant,

7even them I will bring to My holy mountain,

and I will make them joyful in My house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices

will be accepted on My altar;

for My house will be called a house of prayer†

for all the nations.”

8A declaration of the Lord YHWH,

the One gathering the banished ones of Israel:

“Yet more will I gather to him,

besides those having been gathered to him.”

Israel’s Sinful Leaders

9Every beast of the field,

come to devour—

every beast in the forest!

10His watchmen are blind—all of them!

They do not know;

all of them are mute dogs,

they are not able to bark,

dreaming lying down,

loving to sleep.

11And these dogs are strong of appetite;

they do not know satisfaction;

and they are shepherds not knowing discernment;

they all turn to their own way,

each man for his own gain from his quarter.

“Come, I will bring wine,

and let us imbibe the strong drink;

and this day will be like tomorrow—

great—exceedingly abundant.”