> The whole point of the passage in Isaiah 56 is to look forward to the time
> when God's house would be called the house of prayer of all peoples. At the
> time when the text was written the temple had been destroyed by Babylon and
> newly rebuilt. The writer of Isaiah 56 is hoping for a more benign world
> than the world which existed then, and exists today.
>
> Best regards,
> Liz
Here you have used your theological beliefs to inform how your should
read the Hebrew.
According to the historical references embedded in Tanakh, these words
were written roughly a century before the destruction of Solomon's
temple
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