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Seek Adonai while He may be found,
call on Him while He is near.[a]
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous one his thoughts,
let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways My ways.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
“For as the heavens are higher than earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain and snow
    come down from heaven,
and do not return there
    without having watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to sow and bread to eat,
11 so My word will be that goes out from My mouth.
It will not return to Me in vain,
but will accomplish what I intend,
and will succeed in what I sent it for.

12 “Yes, you will go out with joy
and be led forth with peace.
The mountains and the hills
    will break forth before you singing,
and all the trees of the field
    will clap their hands!
13 Instead of the thorn bush, a cypress will come up,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up,
and it will be a memorial to Adonai,
as an everlasting sign
that will never be cut off.”

Foreigners Keeping Shabbat

56 Thus says Adonai:

“Preserve justice,
do righteousness.
For My salvation is about to come,
and My righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed is the one who does this,
the son of man who takes hold of it,
who keeps from profaning Shabbat,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
Do not let a son of a foreigner who has joined himself to Adonai[b] say,
Adonai will surely exclude me from His people.”
Nor let the eunuch say,
    ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’”
For thus says Adonai,
“To the eunuchs who keep My Shabbatot,
    who choose what pleases Me,
    and hold fast My covenant:
I will give to them in My House and within My walls
    a memorial and a name[c]
    better than sons and daughters.
I will give them an everlasting name
    that will not be cut off.
Also the foreigners who join themselves to Adonai, to minister to Him,
and to love the Name of Adonai,
and to be His servants—
all who keep from profaning Shabbat,
and hold fast to My covenant—
these I will bring to My holy mountain,
and let them rejoice in My House of Prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
    will be acceptable on My altar.
For My House will be called
    a House of Prayer for all nations.”[d]
Adonai Elohim,
    who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“I will gather still others to him,
    to those already gathered.”