JETS 45:1 (March 2002) p. 41 forth justice to the nations” (42:1) as the “coastlands wait for his teaching” (42:4; cf. 49:1). He is “a light to the nations that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth” (49:6b). Isaiah announces that in the last days, when God will reveal his righteousness, biological descent or bodily mutilation will no longer determine membership in his people. Foreigners will “join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants” (56:7).