{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/56","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:36:23.366Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":56,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":55,"nextChapter":57,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":12},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"THUS saith the Lord : Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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: "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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: "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And meet 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. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 56 (DRB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 56](https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/56)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/56 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}