judgment. This makes it difficult to accept Freedman’s argument that the same people are being addressed in 40:1, or even that chs. 34 and 40 belong together in the same book. Torrey himself noted the problem but simply remarked that, if the writer had been pressed to identify those addressed, he would have answered in the words of 66:10, “All those who love Zion” (Torrey 1928, 304). An alternative explanation, proposed in the Introduction, is that the compiler who attached 40–55 to 1–39 would have