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Obligations and Promises to Share in the Covenant

[a]The foreigner joined to the Lord should not say,
    “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”;
Nor should the eunuch say,
    “See, I am a dry tree.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 56:3 Eunuchs had originally been excluded from the community of the Lord; cf. Dt 23:2; Neh 13:1–3; Wis 3:14.

The Nations Come to Zion

Raise your eyes and look about;
    they all gather and come to you—
Your sons from afar,
    your daughters in the arms of their nurses.(A)

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14 You will again show mercy to Zion;
    now is the time for pity;
    the appointed time has come.

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I will look after them for good and bring them back to this land, to build them up, not tear them down; to plant them, not uproot them.(A)

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17 Proclaim further: Thus says the Lord of hosts:
My cities will again overflow with prosperity;
    the Lord will again comfort Zion,
    and will again choose Jerusalem.(A)

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