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Isaiah 56:7-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. I will lead them to my holy mountain, and I will gladden them in my house of prayer. Their holocausts and their victims will be pleasing to me upon my altar. For my house will be called the house of prayer for all peoples.

8. The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, says: Even now, I will gather his congregation to him.

9. All beasts of the field, all the beasts of the forest: approach and devour!

10. His watchmen are all blind. They are all ignorant. They are mute dogs without the ability to bark, seeing empty things, sleeping and loving dreams.

11. And these very imprudent dogs have never known satisfaction. The shepherds themselves do not know understanding. All have turned aside in their own way, each one to his own avarice, from the highest even to the least:

12. "Come, let us take wine, and be filled by inebriation. And as it is today, so shall it be tomorrow and for a long time."

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