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Text -- Isaiah 56:1-10 (NET)
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The Lord Invites Outsiders to Enter
56:1 This is what the Lord says , “Promote justice ! Do what is right ! For I am ready to deliver you; I am ready to vindicate you openly .
56:2 The people who do this will be blessed , the people who commit themselves to obedience , who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong .
56:3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say , ‘The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people .’ The eunuch should not say , ‘Look , I am like a dried-up tree .’”
56:4 For this is what the Lord says : “For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant ,
56:5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters . I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain .
56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants – all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant –
56:7 I will bring them to my holy mountain ; I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar , for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray .”
56:8 The sovereign Lord says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel : “I will still gather them up .”
The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism
56:9 All you wild animals in the fields , come and devour , all you wild animals in the forest !
56:10 All their watchmen are blind , they are unaware . All of them are like mute dogs , unable to bark . They pant , lie down , and love to snooze .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Sabbath |
ISAIAH, 8-9 |
Isaiah, The Book of |
Isaiah |
Church |
Jesus, The Christ |
Righteous |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Eunuch |
PROSELYTE |
Gentiles |
Dog |
Salvation |
Worship |
Love |
TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Temple |
IGNORANCE |
Laziness |
Justification |
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NET Notes: Isa 56:1 Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”
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NET Notes: Isa 56:8 The meaning of the statement is unclear. The text reads literally, “Still I will gather upon him to his gathered ones.” Perhaps the prepos...
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