Isaiah 5:30 was a picture of light disappearing behind gathering storm-clouds. The death of Uzziah (6:1) demonstrated that the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Yet Isaiah’s own experience (6:7) was of the holy God reaching out to save a sinner. Would this gracious salvation operate also on a national level? Looking first at Judah, the kingdom of David (7:1–9:7) and then at Israel (9:8–11:16), the breakaway kingdom of the north
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