56:3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of 1 the Lord should say,
‘The Lord will certainly 2 exclude me from his people.’
The eunuch should not say,
‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”
56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of 3 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 4 my covenant –
1 tn Heb “who attaches himself to.”
2 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
3 tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”
4 tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”