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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...

53:12 Therefore I will allot to him the many, and he will divide the strong as booty, inasmuch as he poured out his life to death and let himself be reckoned among rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and for the rebels he will make intercession. The rendering of this verse adopted by most English translations is weak: ‘Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong’ (NIV). This makes the Servant one among the many victorious conquerors that earth
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