055:005 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know;
and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you,
because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you.
055:006 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while
he is near:
055:007 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, says Yahweh.
055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
055:010 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it
bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread
to the eater;
055:011 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent
it to do.
055:012 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you
into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall
clap their hands.
055:013 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree;
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree:
and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign
that shall not be cut off.
056:001 Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness;
for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness
to be revealed.
056:002 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds
it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps
his hand from doing any evil.
056:003 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh,
speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
056:004 For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:
056:005 To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial
and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
056:006 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister
to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds
fast my covenant;
056:007 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall
be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
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