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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Maintain justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">and do what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">for my salvation is close at hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">and my righteousness will soon be revealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who does this&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">the person who holds it fast,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">and keeps their hands from doing any evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let no foreigner who is bound to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely exclude me from his people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">And let no eunuch complain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am only a dry tree.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">&#8220;To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">who choose what pleases me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">and hold fast to my covenant&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to them I will give within my temple and its walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">a memorial and a name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">better than sons and daughters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">I will give them an everlasting name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">that will endure forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And foreigners who bind themselves to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">to minister to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">to love the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">and to be his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">and who hold fast to my covenant&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">these I will bring to my holy mountain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">and give them joy in my house of prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">Their burnt offerings and sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">will be accepted on my altar;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">for my house will be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">a house of prayer for all nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">he who gathers the exiles of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I will gather still others to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">besides those already gathered.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch57" data-usfm="ISA.57.14+ISA.57.15+ISA.57.16+ISA.57.17+ISA.57.18+ISA.57.19">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And it will be said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Build up, build up, prepare the road!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this is what the high and exalted One says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">he who lives forever, whose name is holy:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I live in a high and holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">to revive the spirit of the lowly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">and to revive the heart of the contrite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will not accuse them forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">nor will I always be angry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">for then they would faint away because of me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">the very people I have created.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I was enraged by their sinful greed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">I punished them, and hid my face in anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">yet they kept on in their willful ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel&#8217;s mourners,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">creating praise on their lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">Peace, peace, to those far and near,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;And I will heal them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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