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The Lord Invites Outsiders to Enter

56 This is what the Lord says,
“Promote[a] justice! Do what is right!
For I am ready to deliver you;
I am ready to vindicate you openly.[b]
The people who do this will be blessed,[c]
the people who commit themselves to obedience,[d]
who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,
who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 56:1 tn Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”
  2. Isaiah 56:1 tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”
  3. Isaiah 56:2 tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”
  4. Isaiah 56:2 tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”
  5. Isaiah 56:2 tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”