Yesaya 56:1-2

The Lord Invites Outsiders to Enter

56:1 This is what the Lord says,

“Promote ¹  justice! Do what is right!

For I am ready to deliver you;

I am ready to vindicate you openly. ² 

56:2 The people who do this will be blessed, ³ 

the people who commit themselves to obedience, ⁴ 

who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. ⁵ 

[56:1]  ¹ tn Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”

[56:1]  ² tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”

[56:2]  ³ tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”

[56:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”

[56:2]  ⁵ tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”