several intimations of it before this point. Isaiah himself has been called God’s servant (20:3), and so has the faithful Eliakim, Hezekiah’s chief steward (22:20). More recently, those who were to find themselves far away from all the tangible signs of their election (land, temple, the throne of David, and so on) have been reminded that, in a corporate sense, they too are God’s servant, since they still share in the call and mission of their ancestor Abraham (41:8–9). However, the announcement at