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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...

of the day, suffering was divine retribution for sin, and great suffering meant a great sinner, whose experience was an evident mark of divine displeasure (cf. the explanation of Job’s misfortunes by his friends, e.g. Job 22:5). The speakers confess that they had despised the Servant because of what was inflicted on him. Now, however, they see that in its origin the burden was not his; it was theirs. Therefore they will not need to suffer in that way. 53:5 But he was pierced through because of our
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