Isaiah 56:1
This is what the LORD says:
What it says
The LORD calls for justice and righteousness because His salvation and righteousness are near.
What it is doing
This verse opens the chapter by linking ethics to the nearness of redemption.
In context
1This is what the LORD says: 2Blessed is the man who does this, 3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, 4For this is what the LORD says: 5I will give them, in My house and within My walls, 6And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD 7I will bring them to My holy mountain 8Thus declares the Lord GOD,