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Isaiah 56:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 247-248

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 247-248

Isaiah 56:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 247-249

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 248-249

Isaiah 56:3

Footnotes

  • *

    56:3 Lit. a dry tree

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 249-252

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 249, 251-252

Isaiah 56:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 767-768

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/2009, p. 26

    5/15/1992, pp. 13-14

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 251-253

  • Publications Index

    it-1 767-768; w09 6/15 26; ip-2 251-253; w92 5/15 13-14


    ad 535; w34 166; jh 245

Isaiah 56:5

Footnotes

  • *

    56:5 Or a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; a

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 767-768

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/2009, p. 26

    5/15/1992, pp. 13-14

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 251-253

  • Publications Index

    it-1 767-768; w09 6/15 26; ip-2 251-253; w92 5/15 13-14


    w77 268; ad 535; w34 166; jh 245

Isaiah 56:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/2010, p. 27

    1/15/2007, p. 10

    11/15/2000, p. 13

    2/1/1998, pp. 22-23

    7/1/1996, pp. 20-21

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 253-257, 260

  • Publications Index

    w10 3/15 27; w07 1/15 10; ip-2 253-257, 260; w00 11/15 13; w98 2/1 22; w96 7/1 20-21


    su 66-67; w79 5/15 15; w78 6/1 24; w72 182-183; w64 555; w43 378; w34 166

Isaiah 56:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    “My Follower,” p. 101

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/2006, p. 27

    2/1/1998, pp. 22-23

    7/1/1996, pp. 20-21

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 253-257, 260

  • Publications Index

    cf 101; w06 11/1 27; ip-2 253-257, 260; w98 2/1 22; w96 7/1 20-21


    w82 7/1 26-27; w79 5/15 15; w78 6/1 24; sl 203; w72 182-183; w65 213; w64 555; w45 376; w43 378; w36 253; w34 166; jh 245

Isaiah 56:8

Footnotes

  • *

    56:8 Or peoples. Quoth Jehovah who is gathering the exiles of Israel, I

  • *

    56:8 (last part) Unc.; susp.

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, p. 257

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 257


    w69 497; w34 166; jh 246

Isaiah 56:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 257-258

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 257-258

Isaiah 56:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 258-260

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 258-260


    w61 86; w60 47; w57 146, 223; g42 9/30 4; w39 211, 373; w38 315, 329; w37 211, 361

Isaiah 56:11

Footnotes

  • *

    56:11 Lit. and those, the shepherds, do Codd.* and they are shepherds who do Susp.

  • *

    56:11 Lit. each to his profits universally

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 258-260

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 258-260


    w61 86; w39 373; w38 329; w37 361; w35 154

Isaiah 56:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 258-259

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 258-259


    g42 9/30 4-5; w39 373

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The Bible in Living English
Isaiah 56:1-12

Isaiah

56 Says Jehovah, Keep the law and do the right thing; for the time is almost here for my salvation to come and my right-doing to be manifested. 2 Happy is the person who does this, and the man who holds fast to it; who keeps sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hands from doing anything bad. 3* And let the foreigner who has taken Jehovah’s side not say “Jehovah will exclude me from his people”; and let the eunuch not say “Well, I am a dead tree”; 4 for Jehovah says to the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths and choose what I like and hold to my covenant, 5* I will give them in my house and within my walls a better monument and name than sons and daughters give; a perpetual, never-failing name I will give them. 6 And the foreigners who have taken Jehovah’s side to serve him and love Jehovah’s name, to become worshipers of his, everyone that keeps sabbath without profaning it and those that hold to my covenant, 7 I will bring to my sacred mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and sacrifices shall be acceptable on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples, 8** quoth Jehovah who is gathering the exiles of Israel; I will further gather to him those whom he is to have gathered to him.

9 All you wild beasts, come to eat, all you beasts in the thickets! 10 her lookouts are blind, they all of them do not know; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreamy, lying flat, fond of sleeping. 11** And the dogs have mighty appetites; they do not know when they have had enough; and the shepherds themselves do not know what is what, they have all turned to their own errands, every single one to his own profits: 12 “Come, I will fetch wine and we will swig beer, and tomorrow will be like today, a very special great time.”

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