Ésaïe 56:4

Darby's French Translation

Voici, je suis un arbre sec; car ainsi dit l'Éternel: Aux eunuques qui gardent mes sabbats, et choisissent les choses auxquelles je prends plaisir, et qui tiennent ferme mon alliance,

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Car ainsi a dit l'Eternel touchant les eunuques; ceux qui garderont mes Sabbats, et qui choisiront ce en quoi je prends plaisir, et se tiendront � mon alliance;

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Car ainsi a dit l'�ternel: Pour les eunuques qui garderont mes sabbats, qui choisiront ce qui m'est agr�able et s'attacheront � mon alliance,

Louis Segond (1910)
Car ainsi parle l'Eternel: Aux eunuques qui garderont mes sabbats, Qui choisiront ce qui m'est agr�able, Et qui pers�v�reront dans mon alliance,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

choose: Joshua 24:15, Psalms 119:111, Luke 10:42

take hold: Isaiah 27:5, Isaiah 55:3, 2 Samuel 23:5, Jeremiah 50:5, Hebrews 6:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:9 - General Exodus 19:5 - keep Exodus 20:8 - General Leviticus 19:3 - keep Deuteronomy 23:1 - shall not enter Deuteronomy 29:9 - General Deuteronomy 30:19 - choose life Ezra 10:11 - do his Isaiah 56:2 - layeth Isaiah 64:7 - to take Matthew 19:12 - which were made Mark 2:24 - that Hebrews 6:18 - lay Revelation 2:17 - a new

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths,.... That fear and serve the Lord; religiously observe all times of divine worship, and walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; show regard to all the institutions of the Gospel, and perform all religious exercises, private and public, on Lord's days, and at other times:

and choose the things that please me; who do that which is wellpleasing unto God, which he has declared in his word to be acceptable to him; and do that from right principles, with right views, and of choice; not forced to it by those who have authority over them, or led to it merely by example and custom:

and take hold of my covenant; not the covenant of circumcision, as Kimchi; for what had eunuchs to do with that? but the covenant of grace, the everlasting covenant, the covenant of peace before spoken of

Isaiah 14:10, made between the Father and the Son, on account of the elect; which may be said to be taken hold of when a person by faith claims his interest in God as his covenant God; comes to Christ as the Mediator of the covenant; and deals with his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, for pardon, justification, and atonement; regards all the promises and blessings of the covenant as belonging to him and lives by faith on them, as such; so David by faith laid hold on this covenant,

2 Samuel 23:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs - Even the eunuchs, who have hitherto been excluded from the privileges of the people of God, and who have been regarded as a separated and degraded people, shall be admitted to the same privileges as others.

That keep my sabbaths - The word is used here in the plural, though the weekly Sabbath is probably particularly intended. It may be, however, that the word is used to represent religious observances in general (see the notes at Isaiah 56:2).

And choose the things that please me - Who will be willing to sacrifice their own pleasure and preferences to those things which I choose, and in which I delight.

And take hold of my covenant - Hold fast, or steadily maintain my covenant. On the meaning of the word ‘covenant,’ see the notes at Isaiah 28:18; Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 54:10.