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A Study Commentary on Isaiah: Volume 2: Chapters 40–66 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This section contains some of the most sublime passages to be found in Old Testament prophecy. It culminates in the vision that Isaiah has of the Servant and its implications for the people of God. John Mackay shows how these things were relevant to Isaiah’s contemporaries, but also how they apply to our own. There were no investigative journalists in the ancient world to bring to the attention...

The prophet is drawn forward in vision to hear Yahweh’s elevated commendation of the one whom he terms ‘my servant’.3 In a startling reversal of previous declarations of divine strength (cf. 51:9–10; 52:10), it is revealed that salvation will be procured for the sinful people of Yahweh not through an Exodus-style display of divine power, but by the humiliation and affliction of the Servant. Indeed, his suffering would be so intense that others would react
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