21–22. Enduring privation they go into exile (roam through …), exasperated with their lot politically (king) and spiritually (God). They are left without hope from God, from earth or from the future (utter darkness). All these verbs are singular. Judgment, like salvation, is individual and personal. . Isaiah now reaches the fourth and final section of his prophecies about Judah. It follows in sequence from what has gone before. Waiting in faith and hope (8:17), the remnant
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