speaker as “the LORD.” But now someone else speaks, because he announces his relationship to “the Sovereign LORD.” The Hebrew mind assumed that everyone reading the passage would understand that the speaker had changed. We consider the speaker to be the Servant of the Lord, whom we have met before. In chapter 42 the LORD, Jehovah, introduced this special Servant, “Here is my servant.” This Servant was different from Cyrus, the man God chose to release his people from the Babylonian captivity, because