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The Prophecy
of Isaias 56
Thus saith the Lord : Keep ye judgment, and do justice:
for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to
be revealed.
Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man
that shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath
from profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing
any evil.
And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to
the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate
me from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold
I am a dry tree.
For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall
keep my sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please
me, and shall hold fast my covenant:
I will give to them in my house, and within my walls,
a place, and a name better than sons and daughters:
I will give them an everlasting name which shall never
perish.
And the children of the stranger that adhere to the
Lord, to worship him, and to love his name, to be his
servants: every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning
it, and that holdeth fast my covenant:
I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make
them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts,
and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for
my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all
nations.
The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel,
saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.
All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts
of the forest.
His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb
dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping
and loving dreams.
And meet impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds
themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside
into their own way, every one after his own gain, from
the first even to the last.
Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness:
and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much
more. |