Oracles from Isaiah for the Outcasts

“ ‘Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child;

burst into son, shout for joy, you who were never in labor;

because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,’ says the Lord.” (54:1)

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;

And you who have no money, come, buy, and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” (55:1)

“Let no foreigner who has bound himself to the Lord say,

‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’

And let not any eunuch complain, ‘I am only a dry tree.’

For this is what the Lord says:

‘To the eunuch who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me,

And hold fast to my covenant –

To them I will give within my Temple [in Deuteronomy eunuchs were banned from the temple] and its walls

A memorial and a name better than sons and daughters;

I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.” (56:3-5)