Read through the complete text for this study, Isaiah 49–55. Then review the questions below and write your notes on them concerning this central text of Isaiah. (For further background, see the ESV Study Bible, pages 1330–1342; also available online at www.esvbible.org.) Immediately after Isaiah introduced the ideal servant (Isa. 42:1–7), we learned that the people of Israel failed to be the servant of God and
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