The four servant songs appear in Isaiah 40–55. (Critical scholars call this portion of the book “Deutero-Isaiah.”4) These chapters contain prophecies of comfort for Israel written by Isaiah from the perspective of the Exile and the return. Isaiah 40–66 emphasizes the deliverance (chaps. 40–48), the Deliverer (chaps. 49–55 [or 57]), and the delivered (chaps. 56 [or 58]–66), dealing respectively with the purpose of peace (the comfort), the Prince of Peace (the Cross), and the program of peace (the