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The Message of Isaiah: On Eagles’ Wings is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ever since Jesus read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue of Nazareth, Christians have gravitated to this great prophecy as the interpretive center of the Old Testament. Here the story of Israel, scourged by judgment and exile yet hopeful of restoration, is framed by its witnesses, heaven and earth. How will Israel be brought through its school of suffering and be propelled toward its...

the voice of God himself, but the cries of the mighty beings who surround his throne. His response here (What shall I cry?) is the counterpart of his earlier cry (‘For how long, O LORD?’). There he was summoned to a ministry of judgment; here to one of comfort. The former ministry was to continue ‘Until cities lie ruined and without inhabitant … until the LORD has sent everyone far away …’ (6:11–12). The present ministry is to be directed to those who have experienced the full outworking of that
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