Text -- Isaiah 56:1-2 (NET)

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.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 56:1

¹ tn Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”

² tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”

NET Notes: Isa 56:2

¹ tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”

² tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”

³ tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”