1 Practiquen la justicia y el derecho, dice el Señor, porque pronto vengo a demostrarles mi poder liberador. 2 Dios bendecirá a todo el que se abstenga de practicar el mal y al que rehúse trabajar los días sábado, es decir, los días de reposo obligatorio. 3 El extranjero que se entrega al Señor no debe ni siquiera pensar en que Dios lo va a rechazar. Tampoco el eunuco debe considerarse como árbol seco. 4 Esto digo a los eunucos que respetan mis días de reposo, me son fieles y me obedecen: 5 Yo les concederé el privilegio de tener sus nombres grabados de manera permanente en mi templo, dentro de mis muros. Tendrán un nombre eterno que nunca será borrado. ¡Eso es mejor que tener muchos hijos e hijas! 6 En cuanto a los extranjeros, aquellos que se unan al pueblo del Señor, le sirvan, amen su nombre, sean siervos suyos, no profanen el sábado y hayan aceptado su pacto y sus promesas, 7 también los traeré a mi santo monte de Jerusalén y los llenaré de gozo dentro de mi Casa de Oración. Aceptaré sus sacrificios y ofrendas porque mi templo será llamado «Casa de Oración para todos los pueblos». 8 Porque el Señor que hace volver a los desterrados de Israel dice: «A otros traeré además de mi pueblo Israel». 9 ¡Vengan, naciones enemigas! ¡Vengan a destruir a mi pueblo! 10 Porque sus líderes son unos incapaces. No se dan cuenta del peligro en el que está mi pueblo. Más bien se pasan la vida durmiendo y soñando. 11 Son codiciosos como perros, jamás se satisfacen; son pastores insensatos a quienes sólo preocupa su propio interés, procurando obtener cuanto más pueden, no importándoles el origen. 12 «Vamos», dicen. «Conseguiremos vino y haremos fiesta; embriaguémonos. ¡Esto se llama vivir; que siga la fiesta, y mañana será aún mejor!».
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Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Romans 13:11–14; Psalm 85:9; Matthew 3:2; Isaiah 1:16–19; Romans 1:17
- 2 Exodus 31:13–16; Isaiah 58:13; Psalm 112:1; Ezekiel 20:12; Luke 11:28
- 3 1 Corinthians 6:17; Matthew 19:12–30; Acts 10:34; Jeremiah 50:5; Numbers 18:4
- 4 Joshua 24:15; Psalm 119:111; Luke 10:42; Isaiah 27:5; Isaiah 56:6
- 5 Revelation 3:12; Revelation 3:5; 1 John 3:1; John 1:12; 1 Timothy 3:15
- 6 Jeremiah 50:5; Isaiah 58:13; Isaiah 56:2–4; Galatians 5:6; James 2:5
- 7 Mark 11:17; Isaiah 2:2–3; Malachi 1:11; Luke 19:46; Matthew 21:13
- 8 John 10:16; Isaiah 54:7; Isaiah 60:3–11; Zechariah 10:8–10; Ephesians 2:14–16
- 9 Jeremiah 12:9; Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 18:6; Ezekiel 39:17; Ezekiel 29:5
- 10 Isaiah 29:10; Ezekiel 33:6; Matthew 15:14; Philippians 3:2; Isaiah 58:1
- 11 Ezekiel 34:2–3; Ezekiel 13:19; John 8:43; Micah 3:11; Micah 3:5–6
- 12 Psalm 10:6; Luke 12:19–20; Proverbs 27:1; Isaiah 5:22; Proverbs 23:35
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The seed, then, and the name of the saints shall remain in that blessedness,--the seed, to wit, of which John says, "And his seed remaineth in him;" and the name, of which it was said through Isaiah himself, "I will give them an everlasting name." "And there shall be to them month after month, and Sabbath after Sabbath," as if …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Wherefore also He Himself sets up Isaiah against them as an accuser, saying, "My house shall be called a house of prayer." But not in this way only doth He show His authority, but also by His healing divers infirmities.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… another Psalm also said, "They shall be turned at even, and hunger they shall suffer as dogs." For even some dogs have been reproved by the Prophet Isaiah, not because they were dogs, but because they knew not how to bark, and loved to sleep. In which place indeed he hath shown, that if they had watched and barked for …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For of these it is said elsewhere, "Dumb dogs, they know not how to bark." Of them too is that said, "Lo, how the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart." He perished as far as lay in them who would have Him to perish; for how could He perish by dying, who in that way rather was …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)