The reader will notice that herein the ‘scissors-and-paste’ method adopted by many commentators is not employed. The so-called ‘Servant’ passages (42:1–4; 49:1–6; 50:4–9; 52:13–53:12) are to be understood best when we read them in the setting in which DI actually placed them, for they each in turn advance the total argument just where they stand. Therefore the ‘Servant Poems’ are not discussed as such. The whole sixteen chapters together are in fact a poem about God’s relationship to his ‘Servant’