especially in 42:1–4 and 49:1–11.22 The figure of Isa. 61 brings a message of God’s deliverance to exiles. The deliverance imagery parallels the description of the Jubilee year (Lev. 25: 8–17), when debts were canceled and slaves were freed every fiftieth year. It is a picture of forgiveness and spiritual liberation, which is at the center of Jesus’ message (Plummer 1896: 121; Sloan 1977: 4–27; Shin Kyo-Seon 1989). Isaiah 58 contains a prophetic rebuke of the nation for not exhibiting justice toward