Isaiah 56 (NET)

Isaiah 56:1¹This is what the Lord says, “Promote justice! Do what is right! For I am ready to deliver you; I am ready to vindicate you openly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:11-14Ps 85:9Isa 1:16-19Matt 3:2Rom 1:17Ps 24:4-6Rom 10:6-10Isa 55:7Isa 46:13Isa 51:5

Isaiah 56:2²The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 31:13-16Isa 58:13Ezek 20:12Ps 112:1Exod 20:10Ezek 20:20Jer 17:21-22Luke 11:28John 13:17Ps 106:3

Isaiah 56:3³No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, ‘The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 6:17Acts 10:34Matt 19:12-30Acts 10:1-2Acts 17:4Dan 1:3-21Eph 2:22Isa 14:1Isa 39:7Isa 56:5

Isaiah 56:4⁴For this is what the Lord says: “For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 27:5Josh 24:15Luke 10:42Ps 119:1112 Sam 23:5Isa 56:6Heb 6:17Isa 55:3Isa 56:2Jer 50:5

Isaiah 56:5⁵I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 3:12Rev 3:51 John 3:11 Tim 3:15Isa 55:13John 1:12Isa 26:1Isa 48:19Isa 60:18Isa 62:12

Isaiah 56:6⁶As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants— all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 50:5Isa 56:2-4Isa 58:13Gal 5:6Isa 44:5Jas 2:5Acts 2:41Mark 12:30-34Rev 1:101 Cor 16:22

Isaiah 56:7⁷I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 11:17Isa 2:2-3Mal 1:11Luke 19:46Matt 21:13Mic 4:1-2Rom 12:1Eph 2:11-13Ps 2:6Heb 12:22

Isaiah 56:8⁸The Sovereign Lord says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will still gather them up.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:16Isa 54:7Isa 60:3-11Eph 1:10Eph 2:14-16Gen 49:10Isa 66:18-21Jer 30:17Jer 31:10Zech 10:8-10

Isaiah 56:9⁹All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 12:9Deut 28:26Ezek 29:5Ezek 39:17Isa 18:6Rev 19:17-18

Isaiah 56:10¹⁰All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:6Isa 29:10Isa 58:1Phil 3:2Hos 9:7-8Mark 13:34-37Matt 15:14Nah 3:18Ezek 13:16Ezek 3:15-18

Isaiah 56:11¹¹The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:2-3Ezek 13:19John 8:43Mic 3:11Isa 1:3Isa 57:17Mic 3:5-6Rev 22:15Titus 1:7Zech 11:15-17

Isaiah 56:12¹²Each one says, ‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 10:6Luke 12:19-20Prov 27:1Isa 5:221 Cor 15:32Hos 4:11Prov 23:35Amos 6:3-6Jer 18:18Luke 12:45-46