but not urgent to us. It is our belief that Second Isaiah presented to Israel a real future into which it could move and find itself as well as Yahweh, that he described for Israel a national existence which Israel as it was could accept as practical. This national existence to him was the fulfillment of the history of Israel and the supreme moment of its encounter with Yahweh. The dominant theme of Second Isaiah is not salvation, but the mission of Israel for which the nation is saved. Israel is