1. This is what the Lord says:‘Maintain justiceand do what is right,for my salvation is close at handand my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2. Blessed is the one who does this –the person who holds it fast,who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,and keeps their hands from doing any evil.’
3. Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say,‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’And let no eunuch complain,‘I am only a dry tree.’
4. For this is what the Lord says:‘To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,who choose what pleases meand hold fast to my covenant –
5. to them I will give within my temple and its wallsa memorial and a namebetter than sons and daughters;I will give them an everlasting namethat will endure for ever.