God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved. 56:1. Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed. 56:2. 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. 56:3. 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. 56:4. 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: 56:5. 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. 56:6. 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: 56:7. 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. 56:8. The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation. 56:9. All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest. 56:10. His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. 56:11. And most 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. 56:12. Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more. Isaias Chapter 57 The infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble penitents. 57:1. The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. 57:2. Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness. 57:3. But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot. 57:4. Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth wide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false seed, 57:5. Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks? 57:6. In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these things?