Old/New Testament
56 Thus says the LORD: “Keep judgment and do justice. For My salvation is about to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
2 “Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, he who keeps the Sabbath and does not pollute it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
3 “And do not let the son of the strangers, who is joined to the LORD, speak and say, ‘The LORD has surely separated me from His people.’ Nor let the eunuch say, ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’”
4 For thus says the LORD: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose the thing that pleases Me, and take hold of My Covenant,
5 “to them will I give in My House and within My walls, a place and a name better than that of the sons and of the daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be put out.”
6 “Also, the strangers who cling to the LORD, to serve Him, and to love the Name of the LORD, and to be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not pollute it and embraces My Covenant,
7 “them I will also bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My House of Prayer. Their Burnt Offerings and their Sacrifices shall be accepted upon My Altar. For My House shall be called a House of Prayer, for all people.”
8 The LORD God, Who gathers the scattered of Israel, says: “I will still gather to them those who are to be gathered to them.”
9 “All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts of the forest.
10 “Their watchmen are all blind. They have no knowledge. They are all dumb dogs. They cannot bark. They lie and sleep and delight in sleeping.
11 “And these greedy dogs can never have enough. And these shepherds cannot understand. They all look to their own way, everyone for his advantage, for his own purpose, saying,
12 ‘Come, I will bring wine! And we will fill ourselves with strong drink! And tomorrow shall be as today, only much more abundant!’”
57 The righteous perishes, and no man considers it in his heart. And merciful men are taken away, and no man understands that the righteous is taken away from evil.
2 Peace shall come. They shall rest in their beds whose path is straight.
3 “But you, witches’ children, come here, the seed of the adulterer and of the whore.
4 “Of whom do you make sport? Upon whom have you gaped and thrust out your tongue? Are not you rebellious children, a false seed,
5 “inflamed with idols under every green tree and sacrificing the children in the valleys under the tops of the rocks?
6 “Your portion is in the smooth stones of the river. They, they are your lot. To them have you poured a drink offering. You have offered a sacrifice. Should I delight in these?
7 “You have made your bed upon a very high mountain. You went up there, even there, to offer sacrifice.
8 “You have also set up your remembrance behind the doors and posts. For you have uncovered yourself to one other than Me, and gone up, enlarged your bed, and made a covenant between yourself and them, and loved their bed in every place where you saw it.
9 “You went to the kings with oil and increased your ointments, sent your messengers far off, and humbled yourself into Hell.
10 “You wearied yourself in your manifold journeys. You did not say, ‘There is no hope.’ You have found life by your hand. Therefore you were not grieved.
11 “And whom did you reverence or fear, seeing you have lied to Me, and have not remembered Me, or set your mind thereon? Is it not because I hold My peace, and for a long time, that you do not fear Me?
12 “I will declare your righteousness and your works, and they shall not profit you.
13 “When you cry, let those whom you have gathered together deliver you. But the wind shall take them all away. Vanity shall pull them away. But he who trusts in Me shall inherit the land and shall possess My Holy Mountain.
14 “And He shall say, ‘Cast up! Cast up! Prepare the way! Take the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people!’”
15 For thus says He Who is high and excellent, He Who inhabits the eternity, Whose Name is the Holy One, “I dwell in the High and Holy Place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to give life to those who are of a contrite heart.
16 “For I will not contend forever. Nor will I always be angry. For the spirit should fail before me. And I have made the breath.
17 “I am angry with him for his wicked covetousness and have stricken him. I hid Myself and was angry. Yet he went away and turned after the way of his own heart.
18 “I have seen his ways and will heal him. I will also lead him and restore comfort to him, and to those who lament him.
19 “I create the fruit of the lips: peace—peace to those who are far off and to those who are near,” says the LORD, “—for I will heal him.
20 “But the wicked are like the raging sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 “There is no peace,” says my God, “to the wicked.”
58 “Cry aloud! Do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet and show My people their transgression, and to the House of Jacob their sins.
2 “Still, they seek Me daily, and would know My ways, even as a nation that did righteously, and had not forsaken the Statutes of their God. They ask of Me the Ordinances of Justice. They will draw near to God, saying,
3 “‘Why do we fast and You do not see it? We punish ourselves and You do not regard it?’ Behold, on the day of your fast you will seek your will and require all your debts.
4 “Behold, you fast for strife and debate and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice to be heard above.
5 “Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and to bow down his head, as a bull rush, and to lie down in sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, or an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the bands of wickedness, to take off the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 “Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor, who wander, into your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him and do not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 “Then shall your light break forth as the morning and your health shall grow speedily. Your righteousness shall go before you. The Glory of the LORD shall embrace you.
9 “Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer. You shall cry, and He shall say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from the midst of you, the putting forth of the finger and wicked speaking,
10 “if you pour out your soul to the hungry and refresh the troubled soul, then shall your light spring out in the darkness. And your darkness shall be as the noon day.
11 “And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make your bones fat. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
12 “And those who shall build the old waste places shall be from you. You shall raise up the foundations for many generations. And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of the Paths to dwell in.
13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your will on My Holy Day, and call the Sabbath a delight to consecrate it, glorious to the LORD, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways or seeking your own will or speaking a vain word,
14 “then shall you delight in the LORD. And I will cause you to mount upon the high places of the Earth, and feed yourselves with the heritage of Jacob, your father. For the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”
2 Now we urge you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (and by our assembling to Him),
2 to not waver suddenly in your mind or be troubled by spirit or word or letter which seems to come from us, as though the day of Christ were at hand.
3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that Day shall not come unless an apostasy comes first and the man of sin is revealed - the Son of Perdition -
4 who is an adversary and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sits as God, in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restrained, so that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. He who is now restrained shall be so only until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then that wicked man shall be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth and abolish with the brightness of His coming;
9 that is, whose coming is by the working of Satan (with all power and signs and lying wonders)
10 and in all deceit of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth (so that they might be saved).
11 And therefore, God shall send them strong delusion, so that they would believe lies,
12 so that all who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness might be damned.
13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers (beloved of the Lord) because God has chosen you for salvation from the beginning, through sanctification of the Spirit and the faith of truth;
14 to which He called you by our Gospel to obtain the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brothers, stand fast and keep the instructions which you have been taught, either by word or by our letter.
16 Now may the same Jesus Christ our Lord, and our God, even the Father, Who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every word and good work.
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