Discovery BoxIsaiah 56:1-2 
ContextThe Lord Invites Outsiders to Enter
56:1 This is what the Lord says,
“Promote 1 justice! Do what is right!
For I am ready to deliver you;
I am ready to vindicate you openly. 2
56:2 The people who do this will be blessed, 3
the people who commit themselves to obedience, 4
who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,
who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. 5
1 tn Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”
2 tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”
3 tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”
4 tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”
5 tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
