Annotated Analysis of

ISAIAH

"Yahweh Is Salvation"

Prepared by James T. Bartsch

May, 2013

Updated February 15, 2017

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ISAIAH 1

"Yahweh Is Salvation"

"And now says Yahweh, who formed me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to him, in order that Israel might be gathered to Him (for I am honored in the sight of Yahweh, and My God is My strength), He says, 'It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make you a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.'" Isaiah 49:5-6

A 1	CONDEMNATION: GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST THE NATIONS 1 - 39

B 1	The Condemnation of Judah 2 and Jerusalem (and Samaria) Tempered with Hope in the Judgment of Assyria and the Coming of Messiah 1-12

C 1	God's initial indictment against Judah and Jerusalem 1

D 1	Judah's rebellious ignorance of God 1:1-3

E 1	Introduction 1:1

G 1	The prophet: {1} The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz

G 2	The target entities: concerning Judah and Jerusalem,

G 3	The time framework: which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

E 2	Yahweh's formal indictment 1:2-3

G 1	His witnesses: {2} Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; 1:2a

G 2	The plaintiff: For the LORD speaks, 1:2b

E 3	His charges 1:2c-1:3

G 1	Revolution from his sons 1:2c

H 1	"Sons I have reared and brought up,

H 2	But they have revolted against Me.

G 2	Apathy from his people 1:3

H 1	The knowledge of mere animals

J 1	{3} "An ox knows its owner,

J 2	And a donkey its master's manger,

H 2	The ignorance of Israel

J 1	But Israel does not know,

J 2	My people do not understand."

D 2	Judah's sinful sickness – a spiritual/medical disaster 1:4-6

E 1	The description of the rebels of Judah 1:4a

G 1	Sinful nation: {4} Alas, sinful nation,

G 2	Iniquitous people : People weighed down with iniquity,

G 3	Descendants of corrupt parents: Offspring of evildoers,

E 2	The description of their rebellion 1:4b

G 1	Acted as corrupt sons: Sons who act corruptly!

G 2	Abandoned Yahweh: They have abandoned the LORD,

G 3	Despised the Holy One: They have despised the Holy One of Israel,

G 4	Turned aside from Israel's God: They have turned away from Him.

E 3	The sickness of Judah 1:5-6

G 1	Multiple illnesses 1:5a

H 1	Unpredictable illness: {5} Where will you be stricken again,

H 2	The cause of the illness: As you continue in your rebellion?

G 2	The parts of the nation affected 1:5b

H 1	The head: The whole head is sick

H 2	The heart: And the whole heart is faint.

G 3	The extent of the nation sickened 1:6a

H 1	From foot: {6} From the sole of the foot

H 2	To head: even to the head

G 4	The symptoms of the nation's illness 1:6b

H 1	Nothing healthy: There is nothing sound in it,

H 2	The totality of injury: Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,

H 3	No dressing for wounds: Not pressed out or bandaged,

H 4	No application of oil: Nor softened with oil.

D 3	Judah's devastation by foreign troops 1:7-9

E 1	The description of the devastation

G 1	Desolate land: {7} Your land is desolate,

G 2	Burned cities: Your cities are burned with fire,

G 3	Ravaged, desolate fields

H 1	Devoured by strangers: Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;

H 2	Overthrown by strangers: It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

E 2	The pictures of the desolation: {8} The daughter of Zion is left

G 1	like a shelter in a vineyard, 3

G 2	Like a watchman's hut in a cucumber field, 4

G 3	like a besieged city. 5

E 3	The comparison of the desolation

G 1	The few survivors: {9} Unless the LORD of hosts Had left us a few survivors, 6

G 2	The comparison to historically devastated cities

H 1	We would be like Sodom, 7

H 2	We would be like Gomorrah.

D 4	Yahweh's abhorrence of Judah's ritual offerings mixed with sin 1:10-15

E 1	Isaiah's command to the leaders and citizens of Judah to listen to God's word 1:10

G 1	His characterization of the rulers: {10} Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom;

G 2	His characterization of the people: Give ear to the instruction of our God, You people of Gomorrah.

E 2	His indifference to their sacrifices: {11} "What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. 1:11a

E 3	His satiation with their offerings 1:11b

G 1	Offerings: "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams

G 2	Fat: And the fat of fed cattle;

G 3	Blood: And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.

E 4	His contempt for their assemblies: {12} "When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts? 1:12

E 5	His loathing of their hypocritical worship 1:13

G 1	Their worthless offerings: 13 "Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

G 2	Their abominable incense: Incense is an abomination to Me.

G 3	Their mixture of sin and worship:

H 1	Their observance of festivals: New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—

H 2	Their hypocritical mixture of sin and assembly: I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.

E 6	His negativity toward their celebrations 1:14

G 1	His hatred of their festivals: {14} "I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts,

G 2	Their distaste for their assembly: They have become a burden to Me;

G 3	His weariness of their hypocrisy: I am weary of bearing them.

E 7	His refusal to heed their prayers 1:15

G 1	His promise to hide His eyes

H 1	The occasion: {15} "So when you spread out your hands in prayer,

H 2	His promise: I will hide My eyes from you;

G 2	His promise to shut His ears

H 1	The many occasions: Yes, even though you multiply prayers,

H 2	His refusal to listen: I will not listen.

G 3	The reason for His actions: Your hands are covered with blood.

D 5	Yahweh's plea: Stop doing evil and start doing good 1:16-17

E 1	Repent! 1:16

G 1	Purify yourselves! {16} "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;

G 2	Excise evil!

H 1	Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.

H 2	Cease to do evil,

E 2	Perform righteousness! 1:17

G 1	Exert effort at doing the right thing: {17} Learn 8 to do good;

G 2	Pursue upholding the Law: Seek justice, 9

G 3	Confront those who take advantage of the defenseless: Reprove the ruthless,

G 4	Protect the orphan: Defend 10 the orphan,

G 5	Represent the widow: Plead 11 for the widow.

D 6	Yahweh's warning: forgiveness for repentance; destruction for rebellion 1:18-20

E 1	Yahweh's legal offer 1:18

G 1	To settle their differences in a court of law: {18} "Come now, and let us reason together," 12 Says the LORD,

G 2	To expunge their guilt

H 1	"Though your sins are as scarlet, 13 They will be as white as snow;

H 2	Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.

E 2	The consequence of submission 1:19

G 1	The choice of obedience: {19} "If you consent and obey, 14

G 2	The reward of prosperity: You will eat the best of the land; 15

E 3	The consequence of rebellion: {20} "But if you refuse 16 and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword." 17 1:20a

E 4	The verity of Yahweh's speech: Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken. 18 1:20b

D 7	Analysis: goodness has been prostituted with evil 1:21-23

E 1	Jerusalem's sad descent from her origins 1:21

G 1	Jerusalem's faithful beginning: {21} How the faithful city

G 2	Jerusalem's present prostitution: has become a harlot,

G 3	Jerusalem's former righteous character

H 1	Full of justice: She who was full of justice!

H 2	Home to righteousness: Righteousness once lodged in her,

G 4	Jerusalem's present homicidal character: But now murderers.

E 2	The prophet's sad word-picture of Jerusalem 1:22

G 1	Her contaminated silver 22 Your silver has become dross,

G 2	Her tasteless, diluted wine: Your drink diluted with water.

E 3	The prophet's damning characterization of Jerusalem's government leaders 1:23

G 1	Their pursuit of money

H 1	{23} Your rulers are rebels 19

H 2	And companions of thieves; 20

H 3	Everyone loves a bribe 21

H 4	And chases after rewards.

G 2	Their neglect of justice

H 1	They do not defend the orphan, 22

H 2	Nor does the widow's plea come before them.

D 8	God's promised destruction of rebels and restoration of righteous judges 1:24-26

E 1	Yahweh's promised vengeance on His Israeli adversaries 1:24

G 1	The names characterizing God

H 1	{24} Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts,

H 2	The Mighty One of Israel,

G 2	His declaration against the corrupt Israeli rulers: declares,

H 1	His mission against His adversaries: "Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries

H 2	His vengeance against His foes: And avenge Myself on My foes.

E 2	His promise to purify Israel 1:25

G 1	Turning against them: {25} "I will also turn My hand against you,

G 2	Refining them: And will smelt away your dross as with lye

G 3	Decontaminating them: And will remove all your alloy.

E 3	His promise to restore Israel 1:26

G 1	Restoring rulers with integrity

H 1	Ethical judges: {26} "Then I will restore your judges as at the first,

H 2	Virtuous counselors: And your counselors as at the beginning;

G 2	Restoring the virtue of Jerusalem

H 1	Characterized by righteousness: After that you will be called the city of righteousness,

H 2	Characterized by faithfulness: A faithful city."

D 9	Isaiah's prophecy of the restoration of the righteous; judgment of the unrighteous 1:27-31

E 1	The flourishing of the repentant 1:27

G 1	Redemption with justice: {27} Zion will be redeemed with justice

G 2	Righteousness through repentance: And her repentant ones with righteousness.

E 2	The destruction of rebels 1:28

G 1	The shattering of revolutionaries and offenders: {28} But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together,

G 2	The demise of apostates: And those who forsake the LORD will come to an end.

E 3	Their future embarrassment over their present idolatry 1:29

G 1	Their shame: {29} Surely you will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,

G 2	Their embarrassment: And you will be embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.

E 4	Their pathetic portrayal 1:30

G 1	As a withered oak: 30 For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away

G 2	As a drought-stricken garden: Or as a garden that has no water.

E 5	The future fiery demise of the powerful ungodly 1:31

G 1	The flammability of the evil powerful: {31} The strong man will become tinder,

G 2	The combustibility of his work: His work also a spark.

G 3	The incineration of the strong and his work: Thus they shall both burn together

G 4	The unquenchable conflagration: And there will be none to quench them. 23

C 2	The future glory of the Millennial Kingdom contrasted with prior judgment 2 - 4

D 1	Millennial world-wide righteousness, law and justice springing from God, the King at Jerusalem 2:1-4

E 1	Isaiah's vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem: {1} The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2:1

E 2	The time indicated – the last days: {2} Now it will come about that In the last days 24 2:2a

E 3	The exaltation of the Temple Mount 2:2b

G 1	The global superiority of the Temple Mount government: The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains,25

G 2	The physical elevation of the Temple Mount itself: And will be raised above the hills; 26

G 3	The subjugation of all nations to the Temple Mount government: And all the nations will stream to it. 27

E 4	The magnetism of the Temple Mount 2:3a

G 1	The mutual exhortation: {3} And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up

G 2	The specific destination

H 1	The Temple Mount: to the mountain of the LORD,

H 2	The house of Israel's God: To the house of the God of Jacob;

G 3	The specific purpose

H 1	Personal instruction from the Messiah: That He may teach us concerning His ways 28

H 2	Personal obedience by Earth's peoples: And that we may walk in His paths." 29

E 5	The centrality of Zion / Jerusalem 2:3b

G 1	The emanation of the Global Law from Zion: For the law will go forth from Zion 30

G 2	The proclamation of the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem: And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

E 6	The magnanimous impact of Messiah as King of the World 2:4

G 1	Serving as international Judge and Arbiter

H 1	{4} And He will judge between the nations,31

H 2	And will render decisions for many peoples;32

G 2	Achieving international peace: The response of earth's nations

H 1	Turning instruments of war into instruments of agriculture

J 1	And they will hammer their swords into plowshares

J 2	and their spears into pruning hooks.33

H 2	Pursuing international peace

J 1	The eradication of war: Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

J 2	The elimination of the military infrastructure: And never again will they learn war.34

D 2	The present plea to Jacob to walk in the light of Yahweh 2:5

D 3	The explanation for Yahweh's abandonment of His people--the catalog of their sins 2:6-11

D 4	Yahweh's far-future Day of Reckoning in the Tribulation 2:12-22

D 5	The prediction of God's near-future impoverishment of sinful Judah through the Babylonian invasion 3:1 - 4:1

E 1	The description of the impoverishment: God's removal of the cream of society 3:1-12

E 2	The reason for the impoverishment 3:13-16

G 1	The leaders' crushing of the poor 3:13-15

G 2	The pride of the daughters of Zion 3:16

E 3	The extent of the impoverishment 3:17 - 4:1

G 1	The stripping of feminine symbols of beauty 3:17-
24

G 2	The extinction of masculine marriageability 3:25 - 4:1 35

D 6	The glorious righteousness and safety for Millennial dwellers in Zion 4:2-6

E 1	The glory of the Branch (Messiah) and surviving Jewish believers 4:2

E 2	The righteousness of the survivors and filth-purged daughters of Zion 4:3-4

E 3	The safety of the dwellers in Zion 4:5-6

C 3	God's unproductive vineyard: Judah and Israel 5

D 1	The tragedy of the vineyard 5:1-7

E 1	The song of the vineyard: God's infinite care rewarded with but worthless grapes 5:1-2

E 2	Unrequited care's destructive response 5:3-6

E 3	The explanation of the song 5:7

D 2	The woeful fruit of the unproductive vineyard 5:8-23

E 1	Woe to land-grabbers 5:8-10

E 2	Woe to drunkards 5:11-12

E 3	The judgment on the vineyard: Exile and Sheol 5:13-17

E 4	Woe to mockers of God with their evil 5:18-19

E 5	Woe to re-definers of good and evil 5:20

E 6	Woe to the arrogant 5:21

E 7	Woe to drunken, bribe-taking judges 5:22-23

D 3	Yahweh's judgment against the vineyard 5:24-30

E 1	His burning anger resulting in death 5:24-25

E 2	His calling of a distant nation (Egypt, Assyria, and later Babylon) to invade 5:26-30

C 4	God's commissioning of Isaiah 6

D 1	The date of the commissioning: {1} In the year of King Uzziah's death 36 6:1a

D 2	Isaiah's vision of the holiness and glory of God 6:1b-4

E 1	The exalted enthronement of Adonay: I saw 37 the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, 6:1b

E 2	The immensity of his robe: with the train of His robe filling the temple. 6:1c

E 3	The attending seraphim 6:2

G 1	The position of the seraphim: {2} Seraphim stood above Him, 6:2a

G 2	The description of the seraphim: each having six wings: 6:2b

H 1	Their humility: with two he covered his face,

H 2	Their modesty: and with two he covered his feet,

H 3	Their availability: and with two he flew.

E 4	The pronouncement of one of the seraphim: {3} And one called out to another and said, 38 6:3

G 1	The three-fold holiness of Yahweh of Troops: "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts,

G 2	The pervasiveness of His glory: The whole earth is full of His glory."

E 5	The celestial impact of the seraphic pronouncement 6:4

G 1	Upon the foundations of the thresholds: {4} And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out,

G 2	Upon the temple itself: while the temple was filling with smoke.

D 3	The sinful lips and doomed eyes of Isaiah: {5} Then I said, 6:5

E 1	His ruin: "Woe is me, for I am ruined! 39

E 2	His impure speech: Because I am a man of unclean lips,

E 3	Judah's impure speech: And I live among a people of unclean lips;

E 4	His fatal disqualification – having personally seen the Great King: For my eyes have seen 40 the King, the LORD of hosts." 41

D 4	The cleansing of Isaiah's lips 6:6-7

E 1	The movement of one of the seraphim: {6} Then one of the seraphim flew to me

E 2	The possession of the seraph

G 1	A burning coal: with a burning coal in his hand,

G 2	His use of tongs: which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

E 3	The painful action of the seraph: {7} He touched my mouth with it 42

E 4	The pronouncement of the seraph: and said,

G 1	His statement of fact: "Behold, this has touched your lips;

G 2	His statement of implication

H 1	Cleansing: and your iniquity is taken away

H 2	Forgiveness: and your sin is forgiven." 43

D 5	The commission of Isaiah 6:8-13

E 1	Isaiah's affirmative response to the Divine search for messengers 6:8

G 1	The source of the question: 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, 44 saying,

G 2	The poetic query

H 1	"Whom shall I send,

H 2	and who will go for Us?" 45

G 3	The instantaneous response of Isaiah: Then I said,

H 1	"Here am I. 46

H 2	Send me!" 47

E 2	The nature of the assignment: to speak fruitlessly to insensitive Judah: {9} He said, "Go, and tell this people: 6:9-10c

G 1	Listen without perception: 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive; 6:9a

G 2	See without knowing: Keep on looking, but do not understand.' 6:9b

G 3	Cause their heart to be enlarged: {10} "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, 48 6:10a

G 4	Ears heavy: Their ears dull, 6:10b

G 5	Eyes stuck shut: And their eyes dim, 49 6:10c

E 3	The purpose of Isaiah's assignment – the prevention of appropriate response 6:10d

G 1	The prevention of seeing: Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

G 2	The prevention of hearing: Hear with their ears,

G 3	The prevention of understanding: Understand with their hearts,

G 4	The prevention of restoration and healing: And return and be healed." 50

E 4	The length of the assignment: til Judah has been wasted to a small remnant 6:11-12

G 1	Isaiah questions the length of the assignment: {11} Then I said, "Lord, how long?" 6:11a

G 2	The gloomy two-fold response of Adonay: And He answered, 6:11b-12

H 1	Until the land is empty and ruined 6:11c

J 1	Empty cities: "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

J 2	Empty houses: Houses are without people

J 3	Ruined fields: And the land is utterly desolate, 51

H 2	Until the people are exiled 6:12

J 1	Exiled people: {12} "The LORD has removed men far away,

J 2	Deserted land: And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

G 3	The glimmer of hope 6:13

H 1	A tenth remnant: 13 "Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,

H 2	Yet another conquest: And it will again be subject to burning,

H 3	The simile explaining

J 1	Like a terebinth or an oak

J 2	Whose stump remains when it is felled.

J 3	The holy seed 52 is its stump."

C 5	The futility of Judean trust in Assyria to defend against Syria and Ephraim 7:1 - 8:18 53

D 1	The historical background: Ahaz' fear of the invading Samaritan-
Syrian alliance 7:1-2

E 1	The alliance of Rezin, King of Syria and Pekah, King of Israel 7:1a

G 1	The date: {1} Now it came about in the days of Ahaz,54 the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah,

G 2	The allies

H 1	that Rezin the king of Aram

H 2	and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,

E 2	Their invasion of Judah (734 B.C.) with the futile attempt to conquer Jerusalem 7:1b

G 1	Their attack: went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it,

G 2	Their failure: but could not conquer it.

E 3	The fear in the hearts of Ahaz, King of Judah, and his people 7:2

G 1	The report: {2} When it was reported to the house of David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in Ephraim,"

G 2	The fear of Ahaz and Judah: his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake with the wind.

D 2	The sign of Shear-jashub: Syria and Samaria will not over-throw Judah 7:3-9

E 1	Yahweh's instruction to Isaiah to take his son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz 7:3

G 1	The order: {3} Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz,

G 2	The operatives: you and your son Shear-jashub,55

G 3	The place of meeting: at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller's field,

E 2	Yahweh's message, which Isaiah is to pass on to King Ahaz 7:4-9

G 1	Do not fear these two stubs of smoldering firewood, Rezin and ben Remalaiah 7:4

H 1	The counsel of Yahweh – serenity: {4} and say to him,

J 1	'Take care and be calm,

J 2	have no fear

J 3	and do not be fainthearted

H 2	The cause of Yahweh's counsel: because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands,

J 1	on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram

J 2	and the son of Remaliah.

G 2	I know their plans: {5} 'Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying, 7:5-6

H 1	Invade Judah: {6} "Let us go up against Judah

H 2	Terrorize it: and terrorize it,

H 3	Breach its walls: and make for ourselves a breach in its walls

H 4	Set up ben Tabeel as King: and set up the son of Tabeel 56 as king in the midst of it,"

G 3	The verdict of the Lord God 7:7-9

H 1	The invasion would not take place: {7} thus says the Lord GOD, "It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass. 7:7

H 2	The head of Syria is (only) Rezin 7:8

J 1	{8} "For the head of Aram is Damascus

J 2	and the head of Damascus is Rezin

H 3	The prediction of Israel's demise: (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people), 7:8

H 4	The head of Ephraim is (only) ben Remalaiah:

J 1	{9} and the head of Ephraim is Samaria

J 2	and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. 7:9

G 4	The warning to Ahaz from the Lord: If you will not believe,57 you surely shall not last."'"

D 3	The sign of Immanuel ("God With Us") 7:10-25

E 1	The unwillingness of Ahaz to ask for a sign 7:10-13

G 1	The challenge from Yahweh to Ahaz: Ask a sign from Yahweh, your Elohim 7:10-11

H 1	The origin of the challenge: {10} Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

H 2	The content of the challenge: {11} "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God;

H 3	The absence of limits on the challenge:

J 1	make it deep as Sheol

J 2	or high as heaven."

G 2	Ahaz' refusal to "test Yahweh": {12} But Ahaz said, 7:12

H 1	"I will not ask,

H 2	nor will I test the LORD!" 58

G 3	Isaiah's indignant reply to the house of David on behalf of Yahweh: {13} Then he said, 7:13

H 1	The target of Yahweh's rebuke: "Listen now, O house of David! 59

H 2	Argument from the lesser: Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men,

H 3	To the greater: that you will try the patience of my God as well?

E 2	God's giving of a sign anyway: A virgin to conceive, and bear a son named Immanuel 7:14-16 (Three elements pertain to the sign)

G 1	Yahweh's determination to give Ahaz a sign anyway! {14} "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: 60 7:14a

G 2	The boy would be born of a virgin 7:14

H 1	A young woman would become pregnant: Behold, a virgin 61 will be with child

H 2	She would bear a son: and bear a son,

H 3	She would name him Immanuel: and she will call His name Immanuel. 62

G 3	He would be raised in a time of national calamity: {15} "He will eat curds and honey 63 at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good. 7:15

G 4	While he was still a youth, the two-king alliance would be broken:

H 1	The time: {16} "For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good,

H 2	The desolation: the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken. 7:16 64

E 3	Yahweh's decree upon Judah: Egypt and Assyria are supremely bothersome, not helpful 7:17-19

G 1	God would bring on Judah unprecedented trouble from Assyria: {17} "The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria." 7:17

G 2	God would bring a pestilent fly and bee, Egypt and Assyria to trouble Judah 7:18-19

H 1	The identity of the pests 7:18

J 1	The fly of Egypt: {18} In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt

J 2	The bee of Assyria: and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

H 2	The ubiquity of the pests 7:19

J 1	{19} They will all come and settle on the steep ravines,

J 2	on the ledges of the cliffs,

J 3	on all the thorn bushes

J 4	and on all the watering places.

E 4	The tragedy to befall Judah from the double-crossing hired ally, Assyria 7:20-25

G 1	Humiliation and despair (likened to the shaving of the complete body): {20} In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard. 7:20

G 2	Abject poverty 7:21--25

H 1	Decimated herds 7:21-22

J 1	Possession of only one heifer and two sheep: 21Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep; 7:21

J 2	Abundance of milk and honey: {22} and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat curds and honey.65 7:22

H 2	Ravaged fields 7:23-25

J 1	Vineyards reduced to briars and thorns 7:23-24

K1	Devalued land: {23} And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

K2	Good only for hunting: {24} People will come there with bows and arrows 66 because all the land will be briars and thorns.

J 2	Formerly cultivated hills reduced to pasture land: {25} As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample. 7:25

D 4	The sign of Maher-shalal-hash-baz 8:1-18

E 1	Isaiah's second son--"Swift is the Booty, Speedy is the Prey"--to signify the impending spoiling of Damascus and Samaria by Assyria 8:1-4

E 2	Samaria's ill-fated alliance with Syria: Assyria to conquer Samaria and sweep even into Judah--"Immanuel's land" 8:5-8

E 3	The ultimate destruction of the (Gentile) nations plotting Israel's demise: "God is with us!" 8:9-10

E 4	Yahweh's powerful message for Isaiah 8:11-15

G 1	"Non-advocacy of Assyrian alliance is not conspiracy" 8:11-12

G 2	"Yahweh of Troops" should instead be feared to gain security 8:13-14a

G 3	As a stone, He will crush doubters in Israel and Jerusalem 8:14b-15

E 5	Isaiah's reaction to Yahweh's message: His personal confidence in Yahweh and sense of family destiny 8:16-18

C 6	The prophecy of national darkness and light 8:19 - 9:7

D 1	The judgmental darkness resulting from consultation with demonic mediums instead of with God 8:19-22

D 2	The joyful light issuing from the eternal, peaceful, righteous reign of the ultimate Davidic King 9:1-7

E 1	The first advent (Matt. 4:12-17) prefiguring the second advent 9:1-2

G 1	The prediction of relief for the nation: [1] But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish;

G 2	The captivity and dispersion of Israel: in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt,67

G 3	The glory of Northern Israel at the First Advent of her King

H 1	The prediction of glory: but later on He shall make it glorious,68

H 2	The location of glory: by the way of the sea,69 on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.70

H 3	The description of glory

J 1	{2} The people who walk in darkness will see a great light; 71

J 2	those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them.

E 2	The second advent 9:3-7

G 1	The joy of the nation 9:3

H 1	The increased numbers: {3} You shall multiply the nation,

H 2	The increased joy: You 72 shall increase their gladness; 73

H 3	Israel's joy when God Incarnate dwells among her: They will be glad in Your presence

J 1	As with the gladness of harvest,

J 2	As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

G 2	Deliverance for the nation 9:4-5

H 1	God's vanquishing of Israel's enemies: {4} For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.74

H 2	The demise of the enemy warriors: {5} For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.75

G 3	The advent of a Child 9:6

H 1	The birth of the Child: {6} For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; 76

H 2	The destiny of the Child: And the government 77 will rest on His shoulders;

H 3	The identity of the Child: And His name will be called

J 1	Wonderful Counselor, 78

J 2	Mighty God,79

J 3	Eternal Father,80

J 4	Prince of Peace. 81

G 4	The nature of His kingdom 9:7

H 1	Cosmic: {7} There will be no end to the increase of His government

H 2	Peaceful: or of peace,82

H 3	Davidic: on the throne of David and over his kingdom,83

H 4	Secure: to establish it and to uphold it

H 5	Equitable: with justice and righteousness 84

H 6	Eternal: from then on and forevermore.85

H 7	Inevitable: The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.86

C 7	The hand of God stretched out in anger against Samaria 9:8 - 10:4

D 1	For arrogance in asserting rebuilding capabilities after destruction from God-sent enemy nations 9:8-12

D 2	Against misleading elder and prophet; against misguided and godless young men, orphans and widows 9:13-17

D 3	In burning fury against the infighting of Ephraim against Manasseh and of Samaria against Judah 9:18-21

D 4	Woe against crooked legislators and judges bilking the poor, widows and orphans 10:1-4

C 8	The judgment against Assyria 10:5-34

D 1	Woe to greedy Assyria, who conquers in a self-serving manner, not as God's instrument 10:5-11

D 2	God's predicted punishment of the arrogant Assyrian king 10:12-
14

D 3	God's predicted destruction of the warriors of Assyria, His boastful tool 10:15-19

D 4	Only a righteous remnant of Israel to return 10:20-30

D 5	God's urging of Judah not to fear Assyria in view of His ultimate destruction of the invaders 10:24-27

D 6	The advance of Assyria through Judah right up to Jerusalem 10:28-32

D 7	God's destruction of the mighty Assyrians 10:33-34

C 9	Israel's Messianic Kingdom 11 - 12

D 1	The character of the King 11:1-5

E 1	His Davidic descent 11:1

G 1	A shoot: {1} Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,

G 2	A branch: And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

E 2	His supreme anointment with Yahweh's Spirit 11:2

G 1	{2} The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him,

G 2	The spirit of wisdom and understanding,

G 3	The spirit of counsel and strength,

G 4	The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

E 3	His just reign 11:3-5

G 1	Based on His delightful fear of Yahweh: {3} And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, 11:3a

G 2	Based on His omniscience 11:3b

H 1	Visually: And He will not judge by what His eyes see,

H 2	Audibly: Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

G 3	Illustrated by His righteous and fair treatment of the poor and afflicted 11:4a

H 1	{4} But with righteousness He will judge the poor,

H 2	And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;

G 4	Illustrated by His execution of the wicked by verbal command 11:4b

H 1	Striking the earth: And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,

H 2	Slaying the wicked: And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

G 5	Springing from His own personal righteousness and faithfulness 11:5

H 1	Righteousness: {5} Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins,

H 2	Faithfulness: And faithfulness the belt about His waist.

D 2	The nature of the Kingdom 11:6-9

E 1	Dramatic changes in nature 11:6-9

G 1	Peaceful co-existence in the animal and human realm 11:6-7

H 1	Wolves and lambs: {6} And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, 11:6a

H 2	Leopards and goats: And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, 11:6b

H 3	Young cattle and lions: And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; 11:6c

H 4	Led by children: And a little boy will lead them. 11:6d

H 5	Herbivorous bears; {7} Also the cow and the bear will graze, 11:7a

H 6	Youthful co-existence: Their young will lie down together, 11:7b

H 7	Herbivorous lions: And the lion will eat straw like the ox. 11:7c

G 2	Peaceful co-existence between animals and man 11:8-9a

H 1	Babies and cobras: {8} The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, 11:8a

H 2	Toddlers and vipers: And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. 11:8b

H 3	Predator pacifism in Messiah's Kingdom: {9} They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, 11:9a

E 2	Pervasive, world-wide knowledge of Yahweh 11:9b

G 1	The theological truth: For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD

G 2	The descriptive metaphor: As the waters cover the sea.

D 3	The international politics of the Kingdom 11:10-16

E 1	International allegiance to Israel's Davidic King 11:10

G 1	Nations will gravitate to the Messiah: {10} Then in that day The nations will resort to the root of Jesse,

G 2	The prominence of the Messianic Israeli flag: Who will stand as a signal for the peoples;

G 3	The spectacular nature of His peaceful regime: And His resting place will be glorious.

E 2	The second regathering of Israel 11:11-12

G 1	The time of the regathering: {11} Then it will happen on that day 11:11a

G 2	The facilitator of the regathering: that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand 11:11b

G 3	The focus of His regathering: The remnant of His people, who will remain, 11:11c

G 4	The foreign origins of those regathered: From 11:11d

H 1	Assyria,

H 2	Egypt,

H 3	Pathros,

H 4	Cush,

H 5	Elam,

H 6	Shinar,

H 7	Hamath,

H 8	And from the islands of the sea.

G 5	Messiah's flag will be a focal point for the nations: {12} And He will lift up a standard for the nations 11:12a

G 6	He will regather Israeli exiles: And assemble the banished ones of Israel, 11:12b

G 7	He will regather exiles from Judah: And will gather the dispersed of Judah 11:12c

G 8	The global extent of His regathering: From the four corners of the earth. 11:12d

E 3	The cessation of rivalry between Ephraim (Samaria) and Judah 11:13

G 1	The removal of Ephraim's hostility toward Judah

H 1	{13} Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart,

H 2	And those who harass Judah will be cut off;

G 2	The result of the removal of hostility

H 1	Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,

H 2	And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

E 4	The military successes of Israel 11:14

G 1	Conquering the Palestinians: {14} They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;

G 2	Conquering territory east of the Jordan

H 1	Their conquest of Jordan: Together they will plunder the sons of the east; 87

H 2	Their possession of Jordan

J 1	They will possess Edom and Moab, 88

J 2	And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.

E 5	The changes in middle Eastern topography 11:15-16

G 1	Yahweh's drying up of the Gulf of Suez: {15} And the LORD will utterly destroy The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; 89 11:15a

G 2	Yahweh's drying up of the Euphrates River 11:15b

H 1	His gesture: And He will wave His hand over the River

H 2	His scorching wind; And He will strike it into seven streams

H 3	And make men walk over dry-shod.

G 3	The result of His activities 11:16

H 1	A highway from Iraq: {16} And there will be a highway from Assyria 90

H 2	Benefitting the returning Jewish refugees: For the remnant of His people who will be left,

H 3	The parallel with the fledgling nation of Israel: Just as there was for Israel

H 4	At the time of the Exodus: In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

D 4	Israel's Hymn of Joy in the Kingdom 12

E 1	Thanks for Yahweh's anger turned away 12:1

E 2	Affirmation of trust 12:2

E 3	Joy in salvation 12:3

E 4	Testimony among the nations 12:4

E 5	Praise in song 12:5

E 6	The shout of joy because Israel's Holy One is among them 12:6

B 2	The Condemnation of the Nations Oppressing Judah 13 - 23

C 1	The oracle (weighty message) against Babylon 13:1 - 14:23

D 1	God's destruction of Babylon 13

E 1	Yahweh's calling of distant troops to destroy Babylon 13:1-
5

G 1	The explanation of the oracle 13:1

H 1	It's target: {1} The oracle 91 concerning Babylon 92

H 2	It's author: which Isaiah the son of Amoz 93 saw.

G 2	Instructions to the invading enemy 13:2

H 1	Lift up a flag: {2} Lift up a standard on the bare hill,

H 2	Call out instructions: Raise your voice to them,

H 3	Send a signal: Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

G 3	The warlike activity of God 13:3

H 1	His command to His troops: {3} I have commanded My consecrated ones,

H 2	His call to His warriors: I have even called

J 1	Their might: My mighty warriors,

J 2	Their pride: My proudly exulting ones,

H 3	His wrathful purpose: To execute My anger.

G 4	The enormous size of God's army 13:4

H 1	The tumultuous sound: {4} A sound of tumult on the mountains,

H 2	The vastness of the army: Like that of many people!

H 3	Passionate resistance: A sound of the uproar of kingdoms,

H 4	International cooperation: Of nations gathered together!

H 5	The instigation by Yahweh of Troops: The LORD of hosts is mustering the army for battle.

G 5	The distant origin of God's army 13:5a

H 1	From a distant country: {5} They are coming from a far country,

H 2	From the end of the heavens: From the farthest horizons,

G 6	The characterization of the army 13:5b

H 1	Led by Yahweh: The LORD

H 2	Accompanied by His assistants in meting out His exasperation: and His instruments of indignation,

G 7	The purpose of the army: To destroy the whole land.94 13:5c

E 2	The nearness of the "Day of the Lord": Yahweh's destruction of Babylon prefiguring the world-wide destruction and celestial chaos of the Tribulation 13:6-16

G 1	The characterization of the Day of the Lord. 13:6-8

H 1	Its alarming nature: {6} Wail, 13:6a

H 2	Its nearness: for the day of the LORD is near! 13:6b

H 3	Its Divine destructiveness: It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 13:6c

H 4	Its terrifying nature 13:7-8

J 1	Universal immobilization: {7} Therefore all hands will fall limp, 13:7a

J 2	Universal terror: And every man's heart will melt. 13:7b

J 3	Utter dismay: {8} They will be terrified, 13:8a

J 4	The similarity to childbirth 13:8b

K1	Pain and anxiety: Pains and anguish will take hold of them;

K2	Extreme discomfort: They will writhe like a woman in labor,

J 5	Mutual astonishment: They will look at one another in astonishment, 13:8c

J 6	Vacillating feelings: Their faces aflame. 95 13:8d

G 2	The utter chaos of the Day of the LORD 13:9-10

H 1	The advent of the Day: {9} Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, 13:9a

H 2	The wrathfulness of the Day: Cruel, with fury and burning anger, 13:9b

H 3	The devastation of the Day: To make the land a desolation; 13:9c

H 4	The Divine annihilation of sinners in that Day: And He will exterminate its sinners from it. 13:9d

H 5	The celestial disturbances 96 of the Day 13:10

J 1	The dimming of the stars: {10} For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light;

J 2	The darkening of the sun: The sun will be dark when it rises

J 3	The darkening of the moon: And the moon will not shed its light.

G 3	God's punishment of mankind on the Day of the Lord 13:11-16

H 1	God's punishment of evil 13:11a

J 1	{11} Thus I will punish the world for its evil

J 2	And the wicked for their iniquity;

H 2	God's punishment of pride 13:11b

J 1	I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud

J 2	And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.

H 3	God's annihilation of huge fractions of the earth's population 13:12

J 1	{12} I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold

J 2	And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

H 4	God's shaking of the heavens and the earth 13:13a

J 1	Of the heavens: {13} Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

J 2	Of the earth: And the earth will be shaken from its place

H 5	The indignation of the LORD 13:13b

J 1	His fury: At the fury of the LORD of hosts

J 2	His anger: In the day of His burning anger.

H 6	The terrified flight of humans 13:14

J 1	Like a hunted animal: {14} And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,

J 2	Like untended sheep: Or like sheep with none to gather them,

J 3	Their desperation to find their own people: They will each turn to his own people,

J 4	Their desperation to return home: And each one flee to his own land.

H 7	The terrible plight of those who cannot escape 13:15

J 1	Of those detected: {15} Anyone who is found will be thrust through,

J 2	Of those captured: And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

H 8	The inhumanity of man to man 13:16

J 1	Brutalization of children: {16} Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces Before their eyes;

J 2	The looting of private property: Their houses will be plundered

J 3	The rape of married women: And their wives ravished.

E 3	The identity of those God will use to defeat Babylon: the Medes 13:17-18 97

G 1	The identity of the Medes: {17} Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them, 9813:17a

G 2	The motivation of the Medes – conquest, not commerce: Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. 13:17b

G 3	The relentless, "take-no-prisoner" policy of the Medes 13:18

H 1	Killing the youths: {18} And their bows will mow down the young men,

H 2	Killing babies: They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

H 3	Killing children: Nor will their eye pity children.

E 4	The thoroughness of Babylon's destruction: forever uninhabited 13:19-22

G 1	The beauty of Babylon: {19} And Babylon, 13:19a

H 1	the beauty of kingdoms,

H 2	the glory of the Chaldeans' pride,

G 2	The desolation of Babylon 13:19b

H 1	Its comparison to Sodom and Gomorrah: Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

G 3	Its lack of habitation 13:20-22a

H 1	Perpetually uninhabited by humans 13:20

J 1	The time: {20} It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;

J 2	The ethnicity: Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,

J 3	The occupation: Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

H 2	Its occupation by wild animals 13:21-22b

J 1	Desert creatures: {21} But desert creatures will lie down there, 13:21a

J 2	Owls: And their houses will be full of owls; 13:21b

J 3	Ostriches: Ostriches also will live there, 13:21c

J 4	Goats: and shaggy goats will frolic there. 13:21d

J 5	Hyenas: {22} Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers 13:22a

J 6	Jackals: And jackals in their luxurious palaces. 13:22b

G 4	The chronology of Babylon's destruction 13:22c

H 1	Soon: Her fateful time also will soon come

H 2	Not prolonged: And her days will not be prolonged.

D 2	Israel's appreciation of the destruction of Babylon 14:1-23

E 1	Israel's freedom and superiority after the Babylonian exile prefiguring her status during the Millennium 14:1-2

G 1	Yahweh's future for Israel 14:1a

H 1	Compassion: {1} When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob

H 2	Election: and again choose Israel,

H 3	Resettlement: and settle them in their own land,

G 2	The voluntary choice of certain Gentiles – identification with Israel: then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 14:1b

G 3	The reversal of the exile 14:2

H 1	Gentiles to assist Israelis in returning to Israel: {2} The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place,

H 2	Israel to possess Gentiles in Israel: and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD

J 1	as male servants

J 2	and female servants;

H 3	Israel to rule over her captors

J 1	Captivity: and they will take their captors captive

J 2	Rulership: and will rule over their oppressors.

E 2	Israel's taunt song against Babylon's king (perhaps also to be sung by Israel against Satan during the Millennium and at the inauguration of the New Jerusalem in the New Heavens and Earth) 14:3-23

G 1	The Divine execution of the king 14:3-6

H 1	The time of the song: {3} And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved, 14:3

H 2	The type of song: {4} that you will take up this taunt 14:4a

H 3	The target of the song: against the king of Babylon, 99 and say, 14:4b

H 4	The mockery of the song 14:4c

J 1	"How the oppressor has ceased,

J 2	And how fury has ceased!

H 5	The cause of jubilation: {5} "The LORD has broken 14:5

J 1	the staff of the wicked,

J 2	The scepter of rulers

H 6	The former turmoil caused by the staff-and-
scepter of Babylon's king 14:6

J 1	Its furious striking: {6} Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,

J 2	Its angry subjugation: Which subdued the nations in anger

J 3	Its unrestrained persecution: with unrestrained persecution.

G 2	The joy of the earth at his departure 14:7-8

H 1	The relaxation of the earth: {7} "The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; 14:7a

H 2	The joy of the earth: They break forth into shouts of joy. 14:7b

H 3	The joy of nature 14:8a

J 1	Of cypresses: {8} "Even the cypress trees rejoice over you,

J 2	Of cedars: and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,

H 4	The speech of the trees 14:8b

J 1	'Since you were laid low,

J 2	no tree cutter comes up against us.'

G 3	The taunting excitement of Sheol at meeting him 14:9-11

H 1	The excitement of Sheol: {9} "Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; 14:9a

H 2	Sheol's rousing of the dead spirits: It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, 14:9b

J 1	All earth's leaders: all the leaders of the earth;

J 2	All earth's kings: It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

H 3	The mockery of the rulers: {10} "They will all respond and say to you, (14:10a) 14:10-
11

J 1	You have become as powerless as us! 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us. 14:10b

J 2	Your music has died with you! {11} 'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; 14:11a

J 3	Enjoy the maggots that make up your bed! Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you 14:11b

J 4	Enjoy the worms that make up your sheets and blankets! And worms are your covering.' 14:11c

G 4	The fall from heaven of the star of the morning because of his attempts to elevate himself to equality with God 14:12-14

H 1	His fall from heaven: {12} "How you have fallen from heaven, 14:12a

H 2	His appellation 14:12b

J 1	O star of the morning, 100

J 2	son of the dawn!

H 3	His having been thrown down to the earth 14:12c

J 1	You have been cut down to the earth,

J 2	You who have weakened the nations!

H 4	His past prideful ambition: {13} "But you said in your heart, (14:13a) 14:13-14

J 1	'I will ascend to heaven; 14:13b

J 2	I will raise my throne above the stars of God, 14:13c

J 3	And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. 14:13d

J 4	{14} 'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; 14:14a

J 5	I will make myself like the Most High.' 14:14b

G 5	The wonder of Sheol at his arrival 14:15-17

H 1	His abrupt and deadly demotion 14:15

J 1	To Sheol: {15} "Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,

J 2	To the pit: To the recesses of the pit.

H 2	The amazement of the bystanders in Sheol 14:16-17

J 1	Gazing: {16} "Those who see you will gaze at you, 14:16a

J 2	Pondering: They will ponder over you, 14:16b

J 3	Querying: saying, 'Is this the man (14:16c) 14:16c-17

K1	who made the earth tremble, 14:16d

K2	Who shook kingdoms, 14:16e

K3	{17} Who made the world like a wilderness 14:17a

K4	And overthrew its cities, 14:17b

K5	Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?' 14:17c

G 6	The disgrace of his improper burial 14:18-20

H 1	The dignity of normal kings 14:18

J 1	{18} "All the kings of the nations lie in glory,

J 2	Each in his own tomb.

H 2	The indignity of the burial place of the king of Babylon 14:19a

J 1	Cast out: {19} "But you have been cast out of your tomb

J 2	Rejected: Like a rejected branch,

H 3	The indignity of his clothing: Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, 14:19b

H 4	Remaining unburied 14:19c

J 1	Most dead soldiers are thrown into a pit and covered with stones: Who go down to the stones of the pit

J 2	The king of Babylon lay unburied on the field of battle like a trampled corpse: Like a trampled corpse. 101

H 5	His deprivation of a proper royal burial: {20} "You will not be united with them in burial, 14:20a

J 1	Your ruinous practice: Because you have ruined your country,

J 2	Your murder of your own people: You have slain your people.

H 6	May your sons be killed and forgotten! May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever. 14:20b

G 7	The determination of Yahweh of Troops to cut off all his sons from the earth 14:21-23

H 1	The command to kill the sons of the king of Babylon: {21} "Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter 102 14:21a

H 2	The reason: Because of the iniquity of their fathers. 14:21b

H 3	The prevention 14:21c

J 1	They must not arise and take possession of the earth

J 2	And fill the face of the world with cities."

H 4	The promise of Yahweh to kill off all Babylonians 14:22

J 1	Opposition: {22} "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, 103

J 2	Cutting off: "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD.

H 5	The promise of Yahweh to make Babylon a place of desolation 14:23

J 1	A home for hedgehogs: {23} "I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog

J 2	A place of swamps: and swamps of water,

J 3	A place swept clean by destruction: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.

C 2	Yahweh of Troops' vow to break Assyria as prefiguring Armageddon 14:24-27

D 1	The oath of Yahweh against Assyria 14:24-25

E 1	The fact of the oath: {24} The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, 14:24a

E 2	The certainty of His oath: "Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand, 14:24b

E 3	The content of His oath 14:25a

G 1	{25} to break Assyria in My land, 104

G 2	and I will trample him on My mountains.

E 4	The result of His oath 14:25b

G 1	Then his yoke will be removed from them

G 2	and his burden removed from their shoulder.

D 2	The expansion of Yahweh's treatment of Assyria to a similar treatment of the entire earth 14:26-27

E 1	His plan so to treat the whole earth: {26} "This is the plan devised against the whole earth; 14:26a

E 2	His action to oppose all the nations: and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations. 14:26b

E 3	The certainty of His international plans 14:27

G 1	Who can forestall Yahweh's plans? {27} "For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it?

G 2	Who can resist Yahweh's hand? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"

C 3	The oracle against Philistia 105 14:28-32

D 1	The warning of Philistia not to rejoice at Assyria's breaking, which is only temporary 14:28-30a

E 1	The time of the oracle: {28} In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came: 14:28

E 2	The warning not to rejoice 14:29a

G 1	The target of the warning: {29} "Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,

G 2	The false cause for rejoicing: Because the rod that struck you is broken;

E 3	The sobering truth 14:29b

G 1	The offspring of the serpent: For from the serpent's root a viper will come out,

G 2	The fruit of the serpent: And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

E 4	God will help Philistia's victims 14:30a

G 1	The helpless: {30} "Those who are most helpless will eat,

G 2	The needy: And the needy will lie down in security;

D 2	The doom of Philistia 14:30b-31

E 1	God's determination to destroy Philistia 14:30b

G 1	Destroying its foundation: I will destroy your root with famine,

G 2	Killing her survivors: And it will kill off your survivors.

E 2	The command to mourn 14:31a

G 1	{31} "Wail, O gate;

G 2	cry, O city;

G 3	Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;

E 3	The reasons to mourn 14:31b

G 1	Destruction from the north: For smoke comes from the north,

G 2	And there is no straggler in his ranks.

D 3	The advice to Judah – trust in Yahweh, not doomed Philistia 14:32

E 1	The question: {32} "How then will one answer the messengers of the nation?

E 2	The answer

G 1	The reason for Zion: That the LORD has founded Zion,

G 2	The refuge in Zion: And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it."

C 4	The oracle against Moab 15 - 16

D 1	The cries of horror to come from Moabite fugitives chased by Assyria 15:1-9

D 2	The Moabites (who have mistakenly fled for safety to Edom) urged to seek asylum from the king of Judah as prefiguring their request to Christ during the Millennium 16:1-5

D 3	The sorrow over the disastrous consequences of Moab's pride in not seeking help from Judah 16:6-12

D 4	Yahweh's promise of judgment within three years 16:13-14

C 5	The oracle against Damascus (Syria) and her ally Ephraim (Samaria) 106 17

D 1	The disappearance of glory and sovereignty from Syria and Samaria 17:1-3

D 2	The desolation of Samaria by Assyria 17:4-11

D 3	The eventual doom of the nations troubling Judah 107 (prefiguring the Tribulation) 17:12-14

C 6	Woe to "the land of whirring wings" 108 18

D 1	Ethiopia's sending of envoys to Judah to seek alliance against Assyria 18:2a

D 2	Isaiah's advice to Judah to refuse the alliance because God would refuse Assyria 18:2b-6

D 3	Ethiopia's predicted future homage to Yahweh of Troops on Mt. Zion (ultimately the Millennial Kingdom) 18:7

C 7	The oracle against Egypt 19 - 20

D 1	Yahweh to demoralize Egypt through civil war and the hand of a mighty king 109 19:1-4

D 2	Egypt to be demoralized through drought 19:5-10

D 3	Yahweh to delude Egypt's rulers and advisors 19:11-15

D 4	Yahweh of Troops to terrorize Egypt through Judah (in the Millennial Kingdom, ultimately) 19:16-17

D 5	Egypt to speak much Hebrew and worship Yahweh in the Millennial Kingdom 19:18-22

D 6	Egypt, Assyria and Israel to be tri-jointly blessed of Yahweh of Troops in the Millennium 110 19:23-25

D 7	Naked Isaiah's depiction of the shame of Egypt and Cush, as being led captive by the king of Assyria 20:1-6

C 8	The oracle against the wilderness of (or by) the sea 111 21:1-10 112

D 1	Isaiah's vicarious113 horror at the siege of Babylon by Medo-Persia 21:1-4

D 2	Isaiah's description of the fall of Babylon 114 the night of the feast 21:5-9

D 3	Isaiah's sadness for his own people Israel, who are yet to be threshed by Babylon 21:10

C 9	The oracle against Edom 21:11-12

D 1	The query by an Edomite of Isaiah concerning the length of the political night for Edom 21:11

D 2	Isaiah's reply that the status will improve, but degenerate: (judgment inevitable for those who mock Israel - cf. Obadiah) 21:12

C 10	The oracle against Arabia: Arabia to be invaded in a year 115 21:13-
17

C 11	The oracle against the "Valley of Vision": Assyria's invasion of Jerusalem 116 22

D 1	Isaiah's vision of the invaders' destruction of Jerusalem, aided by Elam and Kir, despite attention to additional defense and water supply 22:1-11

D 2	Isaiah's prediction of Jerusalem's future unforgivable revelry under siege instead of repentant sorrow 22:12-14

D 3	The royal steward Shebna to be replaced by faithful Eliakim, type of Christ 117 22:15-25

C 12	The oracle against Tyre 23

D 1	The urging of eastern Mediterranean to bewail the destruction of Tyre, city of great maritime commerce 23:1-7

D 2	The naming of God as the Cause of Tyre's destruction 23:8-12

D 3	The naming of Chaldea (Babylon) as the human agent of destruction 23:13-14

D 4	Tyre's restoration 23:15-18

E 1	After seventy years' discipline 23:15-17

E 2	Her service of Yahweh in the millennial kingdom 23:18

B 3	The Coming Kingdom: Judgment Before; Blessing During 24 - 27

C 1	The Coming Destruction of the Heavens and the Earth! 24

D 1	Yahweh to despoil the earth completely because of the evil of its inhabitants 118 24:1-6

D 2	The cessation of revelry 24:7-13

D 3	The post-Tribulation, world-wide, joyful praise of Yahweh by the righteous in the Millennium (ultimately, the Eternal State) 24:14-
16a

D 4	Yahweh's staggering judgment of the earth and the evil angelic (demonic) hosts (troops) (cf. Rev. 12:7-9) 24:16b-22

D 5	Yahweh of Troops' glorious reign on Mt. Zion (in the Millennium, ultimately the Eternal State) 24:23 (cf. Isa. 60:19-20; Zech. 14:6-7; Rev. 21:23; 22:5)

C 2	Millennial bliss 25 - 26

D 1	Praise to Yahweh for subduing aliens 25:1-5

D 2	Millennial conditions 25:6-12

E 1	The banquet on Mt. Zion for all nations! 25:6

E 2	The removal of death and sorrow 119 25:7-8

E 3	Praise for God's salvation 25:9

E 4	The tromping down of Moab 25:10-12

D 3	The hymn of praise to be sung in Judah during the Millennium 26:1-6

D 4	Present meditations and prayers in light of the approaching Millennium 26:7-21

E 1	The longing of the righteous for God 26:7-9

E 2	The doom of the wicked, who ignore Yahweh's grace, majesty, and actions on behalf of Israel 26:10-14

E 3	The anticipation of Israel's Divinely-expanded borders 26:15

E 4	The agony of coming tribulation 26:16-20

E 5	The conviction that Yahweh will bring just vengeance against the earth's evil inhabitants 26:21

C 3	Yahweh's salvation of Israel 27

D 1	Yahweh's destruction (at the end of the Tribulation) of Leviathan (the enemy of order in the Creation) 27:1

D 2	The new (see 5:1-7) song of the vineyard 27:2-11

D 3	The post-tribulation regathering of Israel 27:12-13

B 4	Woes Against Israel and Judah Tempered with Blessing 28 - 35

C 1	Woe against the proud, ruling drunkards of Ephraim (Samaria) 28

D 1	The replacement in the Millennium of drunken Samaritan priests and prophets by Christ and worthy judges and police force 28:1-8

D 2	The judgment against the mocking rulers in Jerusalem: As the people mock Isaiah's words, so God will mock Israel with tongues (words) of foreign speech120 28:9-22

D 3	The parable of the temperately threshing farmer as illustrating God's long-term mercy to Israel 28:23-29

C 2	Woe against the inhabitants of Ariel (Jerusalem) 29:1-14

D 1	The prediction of siege and destruction (by Assyria, 701 B.C.) 29:1-4

D 2	Yahweh's instant dispersion of the invading nations as though they were but a nightmare 121 29:5-8

D 3	Judah's Divinely-induced judgment of spiritual stupor 29:9-12

D 4	Yahweh's promise to judge Judah for ritual worship without heart involvement 29:13-14

C 3	Woe to the perpetrators of "covert" political intrigue 29:15-24

D 1	The futility of their trying to hide their plans from God 29:15-16

D 2	God's determination to do His own will 29:17-24

E 1	The fertility of Lebanon and the prevalence of righteousness during the Millennium 29:17-21

E 2	Israel's ultimate glorification of God during the Millennium 29:22-24

C 4	Woes against Judah for alliance with Egypt 30 - 32

D 1	The first woe 30

E 1	Yahweh's woe against the rebels who ally with Egypt for help against Assyria instead of relying upon God 30:1-5

E 2	The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev: Judah's refusal to heed God's prophets by insisting on alliance with Egypt against Assyria guarantees her invasion 30:6-17

E 3	Yahweh's promised blessing for Judah 30:18-33

G 1	Yahweh's guarantee of Judean submission to her visible Divine Teacher (Christ) in the Millennium 30:18-22

G 2	Yahweh's healing provision for His people of dramatic and beneficial changes during the Millennium 30:23-26

G 3	Yahweh's flaming, terrifying judgment on Assyria symbolizing His judgment during the Tribulation 30:27-33

D 2	The second woe 31 - 32

E 1	Yahweh's promise that Judah's alliance with Egypt will cause both nations to fall 31:1-3

E 2	Yahweh's promised supernatural destruction of the Assyrians (cf. 37:36-38) symbolic of Christ's defense of Judah in the Tribulation's Armageddon 31:4-9 (cf. Zech. 14:1-15, Rev. 19:11-21)

E 3	The reign of a righteous, justice-dispensing King (Christ) in the Millennium 32:1-8

E 4	The warning of the women of Judah of desolation until the Millennium comes 32:9-20

C 5	Woe against the destroyer of Judah: Yahweh's vengeance against Assyria (?) symbolic of Christ's judgment against persecuting nations in the Tribulation/Millennium 33

D 1	Yahweh to avenge Judah against Assyria 33:1-12

D 2	The ability of only righteous Jews to stand in Christ's presence in the Millennium 33:13-16

D 3	Superb Millennial conditions in Israel 33:17-24

E 1	The visible, beautiful King 33:17

E 2	The receding memory of invaders 33:18-19, 23

E 3	Undisturbed Jerusalem 33:20

E 4	The Kingdom of beneficent Yahweh 33:21-22

E 5	Physical and spiritual health 33:24

C 6	End-time judgment and blessing 34 - 35

D 1	Judgment 34

E 1	World-wide cosmic disturbances in the Tribulation 34:1-4

E 2	Judgment on Edom 34:5-17

D 2	Blessing: Israel to be encouraged with Millennial healing, bounty, and holiness 35

B 5	The Divine Control of Assyria and Babylon in Relation to Judah 36 - 39

C 1	The historical validation of the prophesied judgment against Assyria 36 - 37

D 1	The Assyrian threat 36

E 1	Assyria's siege of Jerusalem 36:1-3

E 2	The Assyrian commander's terms of surrender 36:4-10

E 3	Open propaganda warfare 36:11-22

D 2	The Divine promise 37:1-35

E 1	Isaiah's promise of relief for King Hezekiah 37:1-7

E 2	Sennacherib's distracted reaffirmation of Judah's doom 37:8-13

E 3	Hezekiah's prayer 37:21-29

E 4	God's promised judging of His proud Assyrian tool 37:21-
29

E 5	The sign to Hezekiah predicting Sennacherib's departure 37:30-35

D 3	The Divine provision: The prophecy fulfilled - the angelic destruction of the Assyrian army 37:36-38

C 2	The historical explanation of Babylon's future conquering of Judah 38 - 39

D 1	Hezekiah's plea for his life granted with an extension of fifteen years 38:1-8

D 2	Hezekiah's song of illness and recovery 38:9-22

D 3	God's judgment on Hezekiah's pride during his extended life: Babylon to conquer Judah 39

A 2	EXALTATION: GOD'S GREAT SALVATION OF ISRAEL THROUGH HIS ANOINTED SERVANT 40 - 66

B 1	The Greatness of God 40 - 48

C 1	As Demonstrated by His Prediction of His Personal Arrival in the Person of the Messiah 40:1-11

D 1	The guilt-expiating nature of Israel's exile (ultimately in the Tribulation) 40:1-2

E 1	God's command to comfort His people 4:1-2a

G 1	{1} "Comfort, O comfort My people," 122 says your God. 40:1

G 2	{2} "Speak kindly 123 to Jerusalem; And call out to her, 40:2a

E 2	The content of the comfort He is commanding 40:2b

G 1	Because of the termination of all war against Israel: that her warfare 124 has ended, 125

G 2	Because of the removal of Israel's guilt: That her iniquity has been removed, 126

G 3	Because of Yahweh's double-punishment of Israel for all her sins:

H 1	He who punished her: That she has received of the LORD'S hand

H 2	The amount of her punishment: Double for all her sins."

D 2	The call to prepare the way for Messiah's advents 40:3-5

E 1	A voice calling for the preparation of a highway for Yahweh: {3} A voice is calling, 127 40:3

G 1	"Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; 128

G 2	Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

E 2	A voice calling for the removal of impediments for Yahweh 40:4

G 1	The lifting up of valleys: {4} "Let every valley be lifted up, 129

G 2	The leveling of mountains and hills: And every mountain and hill be made low;

G 3	The smoothing of uneven topography

H 1	And let the rough ground become a plain,

H 2	And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

E 3	The prediction of the revelation of the glory of Yahweh 40:5

G 1	The revelation of His glory: {5} Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, 130

G 2	The ubiquity of His glory: And all flesh will see it together;

G 3	The certainty of His glory: For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." 131

D 3	The enduring certainty of Yahweh's prediction of the revelation of His own glory contrasted with the brevity and mortality of man 40:6-8

E 1	The command of a voice to proclaim: {6} A voice says, 132 "Call out." 40:6a

E 2	The query of a second unnamed person: Then he answered,133 "What shall I call out?" 40:6b

E 3	The response of the prior voice 134 40:6c-8

G 1	Major Premise: The graphic simile – humans, like grass and flowers, possess a certain attraction and beauty 40:6c

H 1	All flesh is grass, 135

H 2	and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

G 2	Minor Premise: The advance of the simile – humans, like grass and flowers, are mortal and soon wither and die 40:7

H 1	The fragility and brevity of flora

J 1	The demise of grass: {7} The grass withers,

J 2	The demise of blossoms: the flower fades,

H 2	The occasion of the demise of flora: When the breath of the LORD blows upon it;

H 3	The point of the simile – humans are just as susceptible to impotence and death as are grass and flowers: Surely the people are grass.

G 3	Conclusion: The ultimate point of the metaphor – though flora (and humans) are temporal and mortal, what God predicts lasts forever 40:8

H 1	The temporal nature of flora

J 1	{8} The grass withers,

J 2	the flower fades,

H 2	The eternal nature of God's Word: But the word of our God stands forever. 136

D 4	The purpose of Messiah's coming to Israel – to reward and shepherd His people 40:9-11

E 1	The command to proclaim loudly the good news of God's arrival! 40:9

G 1	The command to (Mount) Zion to announce good news from a high mountain

H 1	The place of announcement: {9} Get yourself up on a high mountain, 137

H 2	The designated promulgator: O Zion, 138

H 3	The nature of the news: bearer of good news,

G 2	The command to Jerusalem to proclaim loudly the same good news

H 1	The enthusiasm of the announcement: Lift up your voice mightily,

H 2	The synonymous promulgator: O Jerusalem,

H 3	The nature of the news: bearer of good news;

G 3	The command to announce the good news intrepidly!

H 1	Lift it up,

H 2	do not fear.

G 4	The target audience of the announcement: Say to the cities of Judah, 139

G 5	The content of the announcement: "Here is your God!" 140

E 2	The description of the political nature of God's coming 40:10

G 1	In might and power: {10} Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, 141

G 2	With political sovereignty: With His arm ruling for Him. 142

G 3	With rewards for His dutiful subject

H 1	Reward: Behold, His reward 143 is with Him

H 2	Recompense: And His recompense before Him.

E 3	The description of the shepherding nature of God's coming 40:11

G 1	His shepherding of His flock: {11} Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, 144

G 2	His gentle care for His lambs

H 1	In His arm He will gather the lambs

H 2	And carry them in His bosom;

G 3	His gentle care for His nursing ewes: He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

C 2	As demonstrated by His omnipotence 40:12-31

D 1	The urging of Israel not to fear the nations – God alone is the architect of the universe and of history 40:12-17

E 1	Yahweh, the Great Creator, needed no help in fashioning the Universe 40:12-14

G 1	1st Series of Questions: Who created and measured the universe? (40:12) He is immensely greater than His creation: The questions of who has manhandled the Universe! 40:12

H 1	Greater than the oceans! Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, 145

H 2	Greater than galaxies of the universe! And marked off the heavens by the span, 146

H 3	Greater than the material of the earth! And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,

H 4	Greater than the mountains and hills! And weighed

J 1	the mountains in a balance

J 2	And the hills in a pair of scales?

G 2	He needed no help 40:13-14. 2nd series of Questions: Who counseled God when He created the Universe? (40:13-14) (& 15-17)

H 1	No one has counseled Him 40:13

J 1	No one has regulated (adjusted) His mind: {13} Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,

J 2	No one is able to teach Him: Or as His counselor has informed Him?

H 2	No one as assisted Him 40:14

J 1	He has consulted no one

K1	{14} With whom did He consult

K2	and who gave Him understanding?

J 2	No one has taught Him concerning efficiency, creative skill, or understandings

K1	And who taught Him in the path of justice

K2	and taught Him knowledge

K3	And informed Him of the way of understanding?

E 2	The nations are far smaller than Yahweh 40:15-17

G 1	The nations are insignificant in comparison with Him 40:15

H 1	Nations are compared to a drop of water and fine dust beside Yahweh

J 1	Like a drop of water: {15} Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, 147

J 2	Like a speck of dust: And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;

H 2	Yahweh treats national geography as minutiae: Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

G 2	The entire contents of Lebanon are insufficient for a burnt offering for Him 40:16

H 1	The cedars of Lebanon are insufficient fuel: {16} Even Lebanon is not enough to burn,

H 2	The beasts of Lebanon are insufficient livestock for an adequate burnt offering! Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

G 3	All nations are less than nothing in comparison with Yahweh! 40:17

H 1	{17} All the nations are as nothing before Him,

H 2	They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless. 148

D 2	3rd series of Questions: Will you compare God to something you've made? [like idols or a model of evolution?] (40:18-20) The absurdity of comparing God with idols 40:18-20

E 1	The question of comparison 40:18

G 1	{18} To whom then will you liken God?

G 2	Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

E 2	Will you compare him to a metal idol? {19} As for the idol, 149 a craftsman casts it, A goldsmith plates it with gold, And a silversmith fashions chains of silver. 40:19

E 3	Will you compare him to a wooden idol? 4:20

G 1	The search for a fitting tree

H 1	{20} He who is too impoverished for such an offering

H 2	Selects a tree that does not rot;

G 2	The search for a skilled craftsman

H 1	He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman

H 2	To prepare an idol that will not totter. 40:20

D 3	The propriety of worshiping only omnipotent God: God's Power and Sovereign Control over the Universe and the World 40:21-26

E 1	4th Series of Questions: Haven't you discovered the Transcendent, Sovereign God? (40:21-24)

G 1	The questions concerning their knowledge of the transcendence of God (a chiasm) 40:21

H 1	{21} Do you not know?

J 1	Have you not heard?

J 2	Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?

H 2	Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

G 2	The transcendence of God 40:22

H 1	God's exalted vantage point: {22} It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, 150

H 2	Man's microscopic size: And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,

H 3	God's celestial handiwork – He treats the heavens like

J 1	A curtain: Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain 151

J 2	A tent: And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

G 3	The sovereignty of God over the most elite of men 40:23-24

H 1	His carving rulers down to size: {23} He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, 152 40:23

H 2	His trivialization of judges: Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

H 3	The description of His control over human leaders 40:24

J 1	Their brief tenure

K1	{24} Scarcely have they been planted,

K2	Scarcely have they been sown,

K3	Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,

J 2	His effortless termination of their office

K1	But He merely blows on them, and they wither, 153

K2	And the storm carries them away like stubble.

E 2	5th Question: To whom will you compare God, the Sovereign Sustainer of the Universe? (40:25-26) God's sovereign sustenance of the Universe 40:25-26

G 1	The question of comparison 40:25

H 1	{25} "To whom then will you liken Me

H 2	That I would be his equal?" says the Holy One.

G 2	The incredible control of God over the stars: The challenge to consider – 40:26

H 1	The Creator of the stars!

J 1	{26} Lift up your eyes on high

J 2	And see who has created these stars,

H 2	The general of their vast army: The One who leads forth their host by number, 154

H 3	The identifier of each star: He calls them all by name;

H 4	The keeper of each star!

J 1	Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,

J 2	Not one of them is missing. 155

D 4	Omnipotent God's strengthening of those who trust in Him: God Watches over His People! 40:27-31

E 1	6th Series of Questions: Why do you say God ignores you and mistreats you? (4:27) The senselessness of erroneous conclusions about the Sovereign God: {27}Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, 4:27

G 1	God is unaware of me! "My way is hidden from the LORD,

G 2	God is unfair with me! And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God"?

E 2	7th Series of Questions: Haven't you figured out that the tireless Creator can take care of you? (40:28-31)

G 1	The questions concerning their knowledge of (the Omnipotent, Caring) God 40:28

H 1	{28} Do you not know?

H 2	Have you not heard?

G 2	The titles of God

H 1	The Everlasting God,

H 2	the LORD,

H 3	the Creator of the ends of the earth

G 3	The infinite capacities of God

H 1	He is tireless (He has infinite strength.): Does not become weary or tired.

H 2	He is unfathomable (He has infinite knowledge) His understanding is inscrutable.

G 4	The tender mercies of God 40:29

H 1	{29} He gives strength to the weary,

H 2	And to him who lacks might He increases power.

G 5	The frailty of the strongest of men 40:30

H 1	{30} Though youths grow weary and tired,

H 2	And vigorous young men stumble badly,

G 6	The strength of those who trust in God! 40:31

H 1	The condition: {31} Yet those who wait for the LORD

H 2	The gain: Will gain new strength;

H 3	The comparison: They will mount up with wings like eagles,

H 4	The paradox

J 1	They will run and not get tired,

J 2	They will walk and not become weary.

C 3	As demonstrated by His omniscient sovereignty in comparison to idols 41

D 1	Yahweh's call of one from the east (Cyrus) in righteousness before his time 41:1-4

D 2	God's comforting of Israel, His servant: Israel should not fear the enemy nations, for Yahweh will give victory over them (Post-
Exile; Millennial) 41:5-16

D 3	Yahweh's promise of His miraculous quenching of Israel's thirst 41:17-20

D 4	Yahweh's superiority to idolatrous gods demonstrated in a contest 41:21-29

E 1	Yahweh's mocking challenge of idolatrous gods to a contest to declare history in advance as He does 41:21-24

E 2	Yahweh's prediction in advance of His arousing of one from the north (Cyrus) to conquer rulers 41:25-29

C 4	In providing His Anointed, obedient Servant 156 - Jesus the Messiah 42:1-13

D 1	God's call to observe His Anointed Servant, Christ, who does God's will on the earth 42:1-4

D 2	God's plan to save the world, using His Servant as a covenant for Israel and a light for the Gentiles 42:5-7

D 3	Yahweh's conclusion: You have seen my short-term predictions come to pass. Now perhaps you will believe by long-term prediction (about my Servant, Christ) 42:8-9

D 4	The call for world-wide, joyful praise of Yahweh for conquering His enemies (Armageddon) 42:10-13

C 5	In redeeming His chosen but disobedient servant - Israel 42:14 - 44:28

D 1	The blind idolatry of the disobedient servant - Israel 42:14-25

E 1	Yahweh's long-restrained determination to alter the world physically and to lead blind Israel spiritually 42:14-17

E 2	Yahweh's incredulity over the blindness and deafness of His servant, Israel 42:18-22

E 3	The prophet's incredulity that Yahweh gave up Israel into disciplinary captivity, but still they heeded Him not 42:23-
25

D 2	God's determination to redeem His servant, Israel 43:1 - 44:23

E 1	Yahweh's promise to regather redeemed Israel from all over the globe 43:1-7

E 2	God's call of His servant Israel and the nations to court to bear witness - there is no predictor or Savior but the Sovereign God 43:8-13

E 3	God's promise to judge Babylon and to provide pathways and rivers for drinking in the desert as a new benchmark of deliverance outdoing the Red Sea (last half of the Tribulation) 43:14-21

E 4	Redemption delayed 43:22-28

G 1	Israel's forsaking of appointed sacrifices 43:22-24

G 2	God's readiness to forgive; but sacrifice spurned is destruction guaranteed 43:25-28

E 5	Millennial redemption 44:1-23

G 1	Water and the Holy Spirit to be poured out on Yahweh's servant, Israel (speaks of physical and spiritual salvation in the Tribulation and Millennium) 44:1-5

G 2	The inevitability of praise: There is no God sovereign over history past and future like Yahweh 44:6-8

G 3	The blinded stupidity of idol-worship as a judgment of God 157 44:9-20

G 4	The command to nature to praise Yahweh for redeeming Israel in the Millennium 44:21-23

C 6	In raising up Cyrus to restore Judah and Jerusalem as symbolic of God's Millennial restoration of Israel 44:24 - 46:12

D 1	The supremacy of God in raising up Cyrus for short-term deliverance 44:24 - 45:7

E 1	The naming of Cyrus as rebuilding the temple 200 years before his birth 44:24-28

E 2	God's telling Cyrus (a type of Christ) He will raise him up for Israel's sake for God's glory 45:1-7

D 2	The supremacy of God as Creator and establisher of the Millennial Kingdom for long-term deliverance 45:8 - 46:12

E 1	A Millennial sample of God's creative ability: righteousness 45:8

E 2	Woe to him (Israel) who questions the dealings of his own Creator 45:9-10

E 3	The Maker's right to call forth in advance Cyrus for Israel's sake 45:11-13

E 4	Israel's Millennial supremacy over Egypt and Cush 45:14-
17

E 5	God's creation of Israel to be His world-acknowledged abode 45:18-19

E 6	The urging of the nations to turn to God for salvation, for in the Tribulation and Millennium, submission is to be forced 45:20-25

E 7	The necessity of carrying Babylonian idols; God carries Israel, declaring Cyrus from the beginning, establishing salvation in Zion (now and in the Millennium) 46

C 7	In destroying Babylon, Israel's captor 47 - 48

D 1	The destruction of Babylon 47

E 1	The promised humiliation for Babylon, who abused God's purpose in disciplining the Jewish people 47:1-7

E 2	The certain destruction of secure Babylon 47:8-11

E 3	The impotency of Babylon's astrologers to save her 47:12-
19

D 2	The restoration of Israel from Babylonian captivity 48

E 1	God's refusal, for His name's sake, to obliterate completely rebellious Israel 48:1-11

E 2	God's reaffirmation to Israel of His predictive power -- Babylon is to be destroyed 48:12-16

E 3	The prospects if Israel had obeyed -- much peace and righteousness; many children 48:17-19

E 4	Israel's predicted release from Babylonian exile compared to the exodus from Egypt! 48:20-22

B 2	The Salvation of the Servant (Christ) 49 - 59

C 1	The commissioning of the Servant 49:1-7

D 1	Yahweh's sovereign preparation of His Servant 158 49:1-4

D 2	Yahweh's intention to restore Israel and bring the light of salvation to the Gentiles through His Servant, at first rejected by the nation, but then exalted above kings! 49:5-7

C 2	The nature of the salvation 49:8-26

D 1	Yahweh's Millennial restoration of Israel by His Servant 49:8-13

D 2	God's insistence He has not forgotten Israel; after the Tribulation the land will be too small for the returning sons of Israel! 49:14-21

D 3	God's resolve to rescue Israel from the nations, who will return Israel to the land and serve her, that all flesh may know that Yahweh is Savior! 49:22-26

C 3	The obedience of the Servant in contrast to the disobedience of Israel 50

D 1	Yahweh's admission He sold Israel into captivity for her sins 50:1-
3

D 2	The Servant's humiliating obedience to God as enabling Him to sustain the weary 50:4-7

D 3	The future vindication of the Servant 50:8-11

C 4	The scope of the salvation 51:1 - 52:12

D 1	The promise of comfort even in waste places 51:1-3

D 2	The promise of Yahweh's salvation to the Gentiles 51:4-5

D 3	The promise of Yahweh's salvation to all generations 51:6-8

D 4	Isaiah's prayer for God's intervention on behalf of Israel; God's answering promise to free the exiles from Babylon as typifying Millennial restoration 51:9-11

D 5	God's power to free the exiles demonstrated by His ability to create the universe 51:12-16

D 6	Jerusalem's drinking of the cup of God's wrath 51:17-20

D 7	God's removal forever of the cup of wrath from Israel; His giving it to the nations 159 51:21-23

D 8	Yahweh's urging Jerusalem to clothe herself with strength preparatory to her release from exile among God-blaspheming nations 160 52:1-6

D 9	The beautiful proclamation upon the mountains of the good news of God's redemptive, salvatory reign in Zion! 161 52:7-10

D 10	Isaiah's urging Israel to depart from Babylonian exile accompanied by Yahweh as guide and protector 52:11-12

C 5	The suffering of the Servant to provide salvation 52:13 - 53:12

D 1	The exalted redemption by the Servant 52:13-15

E 1	The future exaltation of Yahweh's Servant 52:13

G 1	His success: {13} Behold, My servant will prosper,

G 2	His honor: He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

E 2	The prior degradation of Yahweh's Servant 52:14

G 1	The consternation of many at the plight of Israel: {14} Just as many were astonished at you, My people,

G 2	The comparison to the utter disrespect heaped upon the Servant

H 1	So His appearance was marred more than any man

H 2	And His form more than the sons of men.

E 3	The future shock of redeemed nations at the glory of the Servant

G 1	His redemption of many nations: {15} Thus He will sprinkle many nations, 162

G 2	The astonishment of Gentile kings at the exaltation of the Servant

H 1	Their silent shock: Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; 163

H 2	The reason for their shock

J 1	Their seeing His glory: For what had not been told them they will see, 164

J 2	Their understanding of His glory: And what they had not heard they will understand.

D 2	The humble origin and appearance of the Servant 53:1-3

E 1	The apathetic reception of the Servant 53:1

G 1	The dismissive response to the announcement about Him: {1} Who has believed our message? 165

G 2	The ignoring of Yahweh's mighty revelation: And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

E 2	The inauspicious background of the Servant

G 1	His unpromising beginning

H 1	Like a tender shoot: {2} For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,

H 2	Like a root in drought conditions: And like a root out of parched ground;

G 2	His unremarkable appearance

H 1	Common, not majestic

J 1	He has no stately form or majesty

J 2	That we should look upon Him,

H 2	No physical magnetism: Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

E 3	The mortified reaction to the Servant

G 1	He was disdained and abandoned

H 1	{3} He was despised

H 2	and forsaken of men,

G 2	He suffered a tortured existence

H 1	A man of sorrows

H 2	and acquainted with grief;

G 3	He embarrassed His observers: And like one from whom men hide their face 166

G 4	He was disdained and disrespected

H 1	He was despised,

H 2	and we did not esteem Him.

D 3	The substitutionary sacrifice of the Servant for sin 53:4-6

E 1	As suffering burden-bearer 53:4

G 1	The vicarious burden-bearing of the Servant

H 1	He bore our griefs: {4} Surely our griefs He Himself bore,

H 2	He carried our sorrows: And our sorrows He carried;

G 2	The misinformed reaction of the nation

H 1	Considering Him judicially punished: Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

H 2	Considering Him judged by God

J 1	Smitten of God,

J 2	and afflicted.

E 2	As propitiatory sacrifice 53:5

G 1	His vicarious crucifixion: {5} But He was pierced through for our transgressions,

G 2	His vicarious torture: He was crushed for our iniquities;

G 3	His brutalization for our benefit: The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

G 4	His scourging for our healing: And by His scourging we are healed.

E 3	As scapegoat for human rebellion 53:6

G 1	The rebellion of mankind

H 1	Wandering from God like sheep: {6} All of us like sheep have gone astray,

H 2	Deliberate pursuit of independence from the Shepherd: Each of us has turned to his own way;

G 2	The penal substitution imposed by Yahweh

H 1	Divine cause: But the LORD has caused

H 2	Human sin: the iniquity of us all

H 3	Vicarious guilt: To fall on Him. 167

D 4	The passive submission of the Servant to judgment for the sin of Israel 53:7-9

E 1	His silent suffering 53:7

G 1	His physical abuse: {7} He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

G 2	His silence: Yet He did not open His mouth;

G 3	His silence and submission illustrated

H 1	Like a lamb to be slaughtered: Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

H 2	Like a sheep being shorn: And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

H 3	His silence: So He did not open His mouth.

E 2	The manner and purpose of his death 53:8

G 1	Through miscarriage of justice: {8} By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

G 2	The oblivion of Israel regarding the death of the Servant: And as for His generation, who considered

G 3	The statement of the Servant's death: That He was cut off out of the land of the living

G 4	The Servant's substitutionary death for the guilt of the people of Israel: For the transgression of my people,

G 5	The people of Israel should have been put to death: to whom the stroke was due?

E 3	The significance of His burial 53:9

G 1	His assignment to be buried with the wicked: {9} His grave was assigned with wicked men, 168

G 2	His surprising rescue, in burial, by a rich man: Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

G 3	The reason for his rescue in burial – his complete innocence

H 1	His non violence: Because He had done no violence,

H 2	His honesty: Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

D 5	The place of honor promised the Servant for His cooperation with Yahweh as trespass offering for the sin of many 53:10-12

E 1	Yahweh's plan to crush His Servant would ultimately bring success 53:10

G 1	Yahweh's pleasure at crushing His Servant

H 1	{10} But the LORD was pleased To crush Him,

H 2	putting Him to grief;

G 2	Since the Servant had become a guilt offering: If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,

G 3	Good will come

H 1	The Servant will see His own (spiritual) offspring: He will see His offspring,

H 2	The Servant will live a long time: He will prolong His days,

H 3	The Servant will succeed in accomplishing Yahweh's will: And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

E 2	Yahweh's Righteous Servant will see the outcome of His own suffering and be satisfied that many are justified

G 1	His anguish: {11} As a result of the anguish of His soul,

G 2	His satisfaction: He will see it and be satisfied;

G 3	His characterization: By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant,

G 4	His acquittal of many: will justify the many,

G 5	By virtue of His having borne their guilt as He died for their sins: As He will bear their iniquities.

E 3	Yahweh's exaltation of His Servant 53:12

G 1	His honoring of the Servant: {12} Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,

G 2	The Servant's dispensing of the spoils of conquest: And He will divide the booty with the strong;

G 3	The reasons for Yahweh's exaltation of the Servant

H 1	His ultimate self-sacrifice: Because He poured out Himself to death,

H 2	His willingness to be humiliated: And was numbered with the transgressors;

H 3	His activity as the ultimate sin-bearer: Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,

H 4	His intercession for the transgressors: And interceded for the transgressors.

C 6	The immediate, Millennial, and eternal blessings inherent in the salvation 54:1 - 56:8

D 1	Israel's rapid multiplication 54:1-3

D 2	Yahweh's oath of eternal lovingkindness toward Israel, His chastised "wife" 54:4-10

D 3	Yahweh's promise to Israel of Millennial success, righteousness, defense and vindication 54:11-17

D 4	The invitation to salvation 55

E 1	Yahweh's free and universal offer of salvation backed by His eternal covenant with Israel of millennial success: resurrected David and Israel's leading international role 55:1-5

E 2	God's urging Israel to seek Him now; future eternal blessing guaranteed regardless of present seeking or otherwise 55:6-
13

D 5	Yahweh's promise to bring the disqualified and Gentiles to worship in the temple (ultimately in the Millennium) 56:1-8

C 7	The reminder of the need for salvation 56:9 - 57:13

D 1	The indictment against Israel's lazy, greedy, evil leaders 56:9-12

D 2	The sparing of the righteous in Israel from oppression only through death 57:1-2

D 3	The cataloguing of Israel's sins: witchcraft, promiscuity, child sacrifice, immorality in the name of religion 57:3-10

D 4	The sureness of God's judgment upon the wicked and blessing of only the righteous 57:11-13

C 8	The criteria for blessing 58 - 59

D 1	Fasting that incorporates a righteous lifestyle 58:1-12

D 2	Sabbath-observance that desists from personal pleasure and strives for God's pleasure 58:12-14

D 3	Dealing with sin 59

E 1	Judah's depravity detailed 59:1-8

G 1	Yahweh's failure to save is not because of His inability 59:1

H 1	Not a short-handed: {1} Behold, the LORD'S hand is not so short That it cannot save;

H 2	Not hard of hearing: Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear.

G 2	Yahweh's failure to save is because of Judah's sins 59:2-8

H 1	The barrier of sin 59:2

J 1	Iniquities have separated: {2} But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,

J 2	Sins have made Him hide His face: And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

H 2	The listing of sin 59:3-8

J 1	Defiled hands and fingers: {3} For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; 59:3a

J 2	Lying, wicked speech: Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness. 59:3b

J 3	Dishonest legal proceedings: {4} No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 59:4

J 4	Serpentine deviance: {5} They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth. 59:5

J 5	Stealthy activity: {6} Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; 59:6a

J 6	Works of evil and violence: Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands. 59:6b

J 7	Murderous feet: {7} Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; 59:7a

J 8	Evil thoughts: Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, 59:7b

J 9	Destructive ways: Devastation and destruction are in their highways. 59:6c

J 10	Ignorance of peace: {8} They do not know the way of peace, 59:8a

J 11	Unjust actions: And there is no justice in their tracks; 59:8b

J 12	Crooked paths: They have made their paths crooked, 59:8c

J 13	Deprived of peace: Whoever treads on them does not know peace. 169 59:8d

E 2	Judah's blind groping as a result of sin 59:9-12

G 1	The departure of God's favorable treatment 59:9

H 1	Distant justice: {9} Therefore justice is far from us,

H 2	Absent righteousness: And righteousness does not overtake us;

H 3	Absence of light and optimism

J 1	We hope for light, but behold, darkness,

J 2	For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

G 2	Characterized by blind stumbling 59:10

H 1	Groping like the blind

J 1	{10} We grope along the wall like blind men,

J 2	We grope like those who have no eyes;

H 2	Stumbling in broad daylight: We stumble at midday as in the twilight,

H 3	Bereft of energy: Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

G 3	Sounding like pathetic animals 59:11a

H 1	Bears: {11} All of us growl like bears,

H 2	Doves: And moan sadly like doves;

G 4	Plaintively seeking reprieve, to no avail 59:11b

H 1	Deprived of justice: We hope for justice, but there is none,

H 2	Yearning for salvation: For salvation, but it is far from us.

E 3	Isaiah's confession of sin on behalf of the nation 59:12-15a

G 1	Admitting culpability 59:12

H 1	Multiplied transgressions: {12} For our transgressions are multiplied before You,

H 2	Accused by our sins: And our sins testify against us;

H 3	Knowledgeable of transgressions: For our transgressions are with us,

H 4	Knowing iniquities: And we know our iniquities:

G 2	Admitting apostasy 59:13a

H 1	{13} Transgressing and denying the LORD,

H 2	And turning away from our God,

G 3	Conceding conspiracy 59:13b

H 1	Speaking oppression and revolt,

H 2	Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

G 4	Describing a moral perversion – opposition to 59:14

H 1	Justice: {14} Justice is turned back,

H 2	Righteousness: And righteousness stands far away;

H 3	Truth: For truth has stumbled in the street,

H 4	Uprightness: And uprightness cannot enter.

G 5	Absence of integrity 59:15a

H 1	The void of truth: {15} Yes, truth is lacking;

H 2	Reversal of good and evil: And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.

E 4	Yahweh's own provision of an intercessor (Christ) to bring salvation to Israel forever and justice to the world (during the Millennium) 59:15b-21

G 1	His displeasure that there was no one to intercede, bringing justice 59:15b-16a

H 1	Yahweh's displeasure: {15b} ... Now the LORD saw, And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice. 59:15b

H 2	Yahweh's astonishment: {16} And He saw that there was no man, And was astonished that there was no one to intercede; 59:16a

G 2	His unilateral provision of salvation 59:16b

H 1	His own arm: Then His own arm brought salvation to Him,

H 2	His own righteousness: And His righteousness upheld Him.

G 3	His holy zeal in providing salvation 59:17

H 1	His holiness: {17} He put on righteousness like a breastplate,

H 2	His salvation: And a helmet of salvation on His head; 170

H 3	His vengeance: And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing

H 4	His zeal: And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

G 4	His retribution to His adversaries: {18} According to their deeds, so He will repay, 59:18

H 1	Wrath to His adversaries,

H 2	recompense to His enemies;

H 3	To the coastlands He will make recompense.

G 5	The result of Yahweh's retribution – global fear of Yahweh 59:19

H 1	Fear in the west: {19} So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west

H 2	Fear in the east: And His glory from the rising of the sun,

H 3	In response to Yahweh's mighty actions

J 1	Like a flooded river: For He will come like a rushing stream 171

J 2	Driven by the wind: Which the wind of the LORD drives.

G 6	The result of Yahweh's efforts at salvation – forgiveness in Israel 59:20

H 1	A Redeemer in Zion: {20} "A Redeemer will come to Zion,

H 2	The requisite of repentance: And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," declares the LORD.

G 7	The certainty of Yahweh's provision of salvation for Israel 59:21

H 1	The declaration of His covenant: {21} "As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says the LORD:

H 2	The provision of His covenant

J 1	Possession of the Holy Spirit: "My Spirit which is upon you,

J 2	Possession of Yahweh's words: and My words which I have put in your mouth

H 3	The guarantee of His covenant: Yahweh's words...

J 1	Your possession of orthodoxy: shall not depart from your mouth,

J 2	Your children's possession of orthodoxy: nor from the mouth of your offspring,

J 3	Your grandchildren's possession of orthodoxy: nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring,"

J 4	Guarantor of the possession of orthodoxy: says the LORD,

J 5	Eternal guarantee of the possession of orthodoxy: "from now and forever."

C 9	The glory of Israel in the Millennial Kingdom 60

D 1	Israel's glorious, God-given light of righteousness in the Millennium to draw all nations to her 60:1-3

E 1	Israel urged to revel in the dawn of the light of God's glory 60:1

G 1	The call to rise: {1} "Arise,

G 2	The call to shine: shine;

G 3	The reason for exhilaration

H 1	Her supernatural luminosity: for your light has come, 172

H 2	The glory of Yahweh: And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

E 2	The dark gloom of the nations contrasted with the glory of Israel 60:2

G 1	The darkness of the nations

H 1	Darkness over the earth: {2} "For behold, darkness 173 will cover the earth

H 2	Deep darkness over the peoples: And deep darkness the peoples; 174

G 2	The illuminated contrast of Israel

H 1	The presence of Yahweh: But the LORD will rise upon you 175

H 2	The presence of Yahweh's glory: And His glory will appear upon you.

E 3	Israel's light to be a magnet to the Gentiles 60:3

G 1	Nations' attraction to Israel's glory: {3} "Nations will come to your light, 176

G 2	Nations' kings attracted to Israel's glory: And kings to the brightness of your rising. 177

D 2	Believing Jews to be restored to Israel with wealth and glory in the Millennium for God's honor 60:4-9

E 1	Israel to rejoice at the return of her expatriates 60:4

G 1	The call to observe: {4} "Lift up your eyes round about and see;

G 2	The return of expatriates

H 1	They all gather together,

H 2	they come to you. 178

G 3	The return of your children

H 1	Your sons: Your sons will come from afar,

H 2	Your daughters: And your daughters will be carried in the arms. 179

E 2	Israel to rejoice in her prosperity 60:5

G 1	Ecstatic observation: {5} "Then you will see and be radiant, 180

G 2	Joyous praise: And your heart will thrill and rejoice;181

G 3	Cause for joy

H 1	Israeli benefit from the sea: Because the abundance of the sea 182 will be turned to you,

H 2	Israeli profit from the nations: The wealth of the nations will come to you. 183

E 3	Arab (Eastern) participation in the worship of Yahweh in Jerusalem 60:6-7

G 1	Arab wealth for the purpose of worship transported by camels to Jerusalem 60:6

H 1	The multitude of camels: {6} "A multitude of camels will cover you, 184

H 2	The provenance of camels

J 1	Western Saudi Arabia: The young camels of Midian 185 and Ephah; 186

J 2	Yemen: All those from Sheba 187 will come;

H 3	The commodities transported by camels: They will bring gold and frankincense, 188

H 4	The result of the camels' good – the worship of Yahweh: And will bear good news of the praises of the LORD. 189

G 2	Arab contributions toward the worship of Yahweh in Jerusalem 60:7

H 1	Flocks from Arabia: {7} "All the flocks of Kedar 190 will be gathered together to you,

H 2	Rams from Jordan: The rams of Nebaioth 191 will minister to you;

H 3	The sacrificial purpose of the flocks: They will go up with acceptance on My altar, 192

H 4	The glory of the Millennial Temple: And I shall glorify My glorious house. 193

E 4	Maritime (Western) cooperation in returning expatriates back to Israel 60:8-9

G 1	The expedited travel 60:8

H 1	Like a wind-driven cloud: {8} "Who are these who fly like a cloud

H 2	Like doves: And like the doves to their lattices?

G 2	The participation of coastal, maritime nations 60:9a

H 1	Coastal regions will trust in Yahweh: {9} "Surely the coastlands will wait for Me;

H 2	Ships from Spain as the vanguard: And the ships of Tarshish 194 will come first,

G 3	The objectives of the Maritime nations 60:9b

H 1	To return Israeli sons to Israel: To bring your sons from afar,

H 2	To transport the expatriates' wealth: Their silver and their gold with them,

H 3	To honor the name of Yahweh, God of Israel: For the name of the LORD your God,

H 4	To acknowledge Yahweh's glorification of Israel: And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

D 3	The earth's nations to serve Israel in the Millennium 60:10-14

E 1	Gentiles to assist Israel 60:10

G 1	Foreigners reinforcing the defense infrastructure of Jerusalem: {10} "Foreigners will build up your walls,

G 2	Gentile kings serving Israel: And their kings will minister to you;

G 3	The Divine prerogative

H 1	His past wrathful discipline: For in My wrath I struck you,

H 2	His future compassion and favor: And in My favor I have had compassion on you.

E 2	The accessibility of the city of Jerusalem 60:11-12

G 1	The policy of continually-open gates 60:11a

H 1	Open gates: {11} "Your gates will be open continually; 195

H 2	Never closed: They will not be closed day or night,

G 2	The reason for open access 60:11b

H 1	A transfer of wealth from the nations to Israel: So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations,

H 2	Symbols of conquest and subservience: With their kings led in procession.

G 3	The necessity of international cooperation 60:12

H 1	Non-serving nations will be destroyed: {12} "For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,

H 2	Uncooperative nations will be ruined: And the nations will be utterly ruined.196

E 3	The cooperation of Lebanon in the beautification of Jerusalem 60:13

G 1	Lebanon's glory will come to Jerusalem

H 1	The fact of glory: {13} "The glory of Lebanon will come to you,

H 2	The symbols of glory – the trees of Lebanon

J 1	The juniper,

J 2	the box tree

J 3	and the cypress together,

H 3	The purpose of glory: To beautify the place of My sanctuary; 197

G 2	The glory of the resting place of King Jesus' feet: And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.

E 4	The subservience of Israel's enemies 60:14

G 1	The bowing of the sons of Israel's former enemies: {14} "The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,

G 2	The reversal of fortune for those who once despised Israelis: And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet; 198

G 3	Israel's former enemies will acknowledge the reality of Jerusalem's identity

H 1	"City of Yahweh": And they will call you the city of the LORD, 199

H 2	"Zion of the Holy One of Israel": The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 200

D 4	The wealthy, glorious, international supremacy of Israel in the Millennium, overlapping into the Eternal State 60:15-22

E 1	The reversal of past animosity 60:15

G 1	Past attitudes toward Israel

H 1	Friendless: {15} "Whereas you have been forsaken

H 2	Despised: and hated

H 3	Abandoned: With no one passing through,

G 2	Future attitudes toward Israel during the Theocratic Kingdom

H 1	A cause for endless high esteem: I will make you an everlasting pride, 201

H 2	A source of generational joy: A joy from generation to generation.

E 2	Israel the beneficiary of international nurture because of Yahweh's salvation 60:16

G 1	Protected and nurtured by nations and kings

H 1	{16} "You will also suck the milk of nations

H 2	And suck the breast of kings; 202

G 2	Cognizant of Yahweh as: Then you will know that I, the LORD, am

H 1	Israel's Savior: your Savior

H 2	Israel's Redeemer: And your Redeemer, 203

H 3	Jacob's Mighty One: the Mighty One of Jacob.

E 3	Yahweh's blessing of Israel during the Millennial Age 60:17

G 1	His material blessing

H 1	{17} "Instead of bronze I will bring gold, 204

H 2	And instead of iron I will bring silver,

H 3	And instead of wood, bronze,

H 4	And instead of stones, iron.

G 2	His spiritual blessing

H 1	Promoting peace: And I will make peace your administrators

H 2	Promoting righteousness: And righteousness your overseers. 205

E 4	Yahweh's preservation of Israel from war and terrorism 60:18

G 1	The absence of war and destruction

H 1	No invasion in the land of Israel: {18} "Violence will not be heard again in your land,

H 2	No terrorism within Israel's borders: Nor devastation or destruction within your borders;

G 2	The symbols of safety and security

H 1	As signified by the name of her walls: But you will call your walls salvation,

H 2	As signified by the name of her gates: and your gates praise.

E 5	The eternal glory of Israel as emanating from Israel's God 60:19-20

G 1	The displacement of natural light 60:19a

H 1	No need of the sun by day: {19} "No longer will you have the sun for light by day,

H 2	No need of the moon by night: Nor for brightness will the moon give you light; 206

G 2	The supernatural source of light 60:19b

H 1	Yahweh will be her eternal source of light: But you will have the LORD for an everlasting light,

H 2	Israel's God will be the source of her glory: And your God for your glory.

G 3	The eternal presence of light 60:20

H 1	God, the source of Israel's light, will, in contrast to the sun, never set: {20} "Your sun will no longer set, 207

H 2	God, the source of Israel's light, will, in contrast to the moon, never wane: Nor will your moon wane;

H 3	Yahweh is the source of Israel's eternal light: For you will have the LORD for an everlasting light,

H 4	Because of that supernatural light, Israel's time of grief and sorrow has ended: And the days of your mourning will be over.

E 6	The condition of the Jewish people and the Land of Israel during the Kingdom 60:21-22

G 1	All Israelis righteous: {21} "Then all your people will be righteous; 208 60:21a

G 2	Israel's eternal possession of the Land of Israel: They will possess the land forever, 209 60:21b

G 3	The supernatural power behind these two verities – Israel and her Land are 60:21c

H 1	The branch of My planting,

H 2	The work of My hands,

G 4	Yahweh's motivation for permanently establishing Israel as righteous people in the land of their inheritance: That I may be glorified. 60:21d

G 5	The supernatural preeminence of the Jewish people 60:22a

H 1	{22} "The smallest one will become a clan,

H 2	And the least one a mighty nation.

G 6	The Guarantor and timing of Jewish preeminence: I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time." 210 60:22b

C 10	The blessings of the Messiah 61

D 1	The anointed Messiah in His First and Second Advents 61:1-3

D 2	Israel's Millennial blessings as God's blessed people 61:4-9

D 3	The Messiah's rejoicing in His salvation provided to all in the Millennium 61:10-11

C 11	The Inevitability of Israel's Millennial glory 62

D 1	Isaiah's refusal to be silent til Zion is Glory 62:1-5

D 2	The appointment of watchmen to remind God to restore Zion in the Millennium 62:6-9

D 3	God's Millennial blessing of Israel is proclaimed to the ends of the earth 62:10-12

C 12	Interim tragedy before ultimate blessing 63 - 65:16

D 1	Christ's treading out the world's lifeblood in the Tribulation 63:1-
6

D 2	Isaiah's review of Yahweh's mercies to Israel 63:7-9

D 3	Israel's rebellion against Yahweh cause for His becoming her enemy 63:10

D 4	Israel's wonderment at God's departure from her 63:11-14

D 5	The plea for Sovereign Yahweh to resume His intervention on behalf of Israel 63:15 - 64:7

D 6	The request of Isaiah to God to spare punishment 64:8-12

D 7	God's turning to the Gentiles (the Church Age) and punishment of Israel because of her sin 65:1-7

D 8	Yahweh to leave a righteous remnant but destroy those in Israel who forsake Him (at Christ's Second Coming shading into the Eternal State) 65:8-16

C 13	Millennial conditions in Israel (shading into the Eternal State) 65:17-
25

D 1	The new heavens and earth (Eternal State, cf. Rev. 21 - 22) 65:17

E 1	Yahweh's promise to create new heavens and new earth: {17} "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;

E 2	Former conditions will not be remembered

G 1	And the former things will not be remembered

G 2	or come to mind.

D 2	Joy replacing sorrow (Eternal State) 65:18-19

E 1	Israel urged to rejoice 65:18

G 1	Israel urged to rejoice perpetually in God's new creation: {18} "But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;

G 2	His creation of Jerusalem to be a place of joy: For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing

G 3	Her citizens will be glad: And her people for gladness.

E 2	Yahweh will rejoice 65:19a

G 1	In Jerusalem: {19} "I will also rejoice in Jerusalem

G 2	In His people: and be glad in My people;

E 3	The absence of sorrow 65:19b

G 1	The absence of weeping: And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping

G 2	The absence of crying: and the sound of crying.

D 3	Longevity 65:20

E 1	No infant mortality: {20} "No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days,

E 2	No premature death for the elderly: Or an old man who does not live out his days;

E 3	If someone dies at the age of 100, he will be considered young: For the youth will die at the age of one hundred

E 4	If someone does not lie to the age of 100, he will be considered as having been judged by God: And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred Will be thought accursed.

D 4	Examples of longevity 65:21-23

E 1	Israelis will build houses and be able to live in them: {21} "They will build houses and inhabit them;

E 2	Israelis will be able to plant vineyards and partake of their own grapes and wine: They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

E 3	Israelis will not be deprived of enjoing the fruits of their own labor 65:22

G 1	In building: {22} "They will not build and another inhabit,

G 2	In planting: They will not plant and another eat;

E 4	Israeli life expectancy will be comparable to that of a tree

G 1	For as the lifetime of a tree, 211

G 2	so will be the days of My people,

E 5	Israelis will outlive everything they build: And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

E 6	The purpose of their labor will be fulfilled: {23} "They will not labor in vain,

E 7	They will not bear children who will die prematurely: Or bear children for calamity;

E 8	Generations of Israelis will be blessed by Yahweh

G 1	They themselves are descendants of those who are blessed: For they are the offspring of those blessed by the LORD,

G 2	So are their descendants: And their descendants with them.

D 5	Instant fellowship with God 65:24

E 1	Yahweh's response before their prayers: {24} "It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer;

E 2	His response before they have concluded their prayers: and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

D 6	Peaceful co-existence in the animal world 65:25

E 1	The herbivorous coexistence of wolf and lamb: {25} "The wolf and the lamb will graze together,

E 2	The herbivorous nature of the lion alongside the ox: and the lion will eat straw like the ox;

E 3	Serpents will be harmless: and dust will be the serpent's food.

E 4	There will be no harm in all the jurisdiction of Mount Zion: They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,"

E 5	The Guarantor – Yahweh Himself: says the LORD.

C 14	Present warning 66:1-6

D 1	Yahweh is too massive for a temple, but He will fellowship with the worshipful 66:1-2

D 2	The likening of Israel's sacrifices to gross sin because of hypocrisy in worship 66:3-4

D 3	Christ Himself to pay back unbelieving Israel as His enemies 66:5-
6

C 15	The rebirth of Israel in the land 66:7-9

C 16	Jerusalem's exalted and secure position in the Millennium and the New Heavens and Earth (Eternal State) 66:10-24

D 1	Joyful satisfaction 66:10-11

D 2	Peace and comfort from Yahweh 66:12-14

D 3	Extermination of Israel's enemies by Yahweh 66:15-17

D 4	International acknowledgment of Yahweh's glory 66:18-19

D 5	Service rendered to Israel by all the nations 66:20-21

D 6	Israel's solidarity guaranteed eternally 66:22

D 7	Perpetual worship of Yahweh by the nations 66:23

D 8	Eternal punishment of the wicked 66:24

Expanded Analysis of ISAIAH

Prepared by James T. Bartsch

May, 2013

Updated February 15, 2017

Published Online by WordExplain.com

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