Maintain Justice and Do What Is Right

This is what the Lord says:

"Maintain justice and do what is right,

for My salvation is close at hand

and My righteousness will soon be revealed.

Blessed 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."

"Whom have you so dreaded and feared

that you have been false to Me,

and have neither remembered Me

nor pondered this in your hearts?

Is it not because I have long been silent

that you do not fear Me?

I will expose your righteousness and your works,

and they will not benefit you.

When you cry out for help,

let your collection of idols save you!

The wind will carry all of them off,

a mere breath will blow them away.

But the man who makes Me his refuge

will inherit the land

and possess My holy mountain."

(Isaiah 56:1-2; 57:11-13)