2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.|


In Context

1 Thus says Yahweh, |Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.|

3 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, |Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;| neither let the eunuch say, |Behold, I am a dry tree.|

4 For thus says Yahweh, |To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:

Isaiah 56:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing any evil.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth it fast; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast to it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

56:2O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

56:2Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that lays hold on it; that keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.