Scripture · Old Testament

Isaiah 56:4

Isaiah 56:4 is verse 4 of Isaiah chapter 56, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

World English Bible

For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

Read in context

Isaiah 56:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

4 For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—

5 I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

Read all of Isaiah 56

Hebrew words

כִּיfor כֹ֣הthus אָמַ֣רhe says יְהוָ֗הYahweh לַסָּֽרִיסִים֙to the eunuchs אֲשֶׁ֤רwho יִשְׁמְרוּ֙they keep אֶת<obj.>שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֔יsabbaths my וּבָֽחֲר֖וּand they choose בַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר<in> [that] which חָפָ֑צְתִּיI desire וּמַחֲזִיקִ֖יםand [they are] keeping hold בִּבְרִיתִֽיon covenant my

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Isaiah 56:4

Read the commentary on Isaiah 56

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Joshua 24:15
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Psalms 119:111
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Luke 10:42
But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Isaiah 27:5
Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”

Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

2 Samuel 23:5
Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Hebrews 6:17
So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

Open in Berean Blue