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is a majestic and beautiful poem, which composes the heart of the book of Isaiah.
I consider this passage essential to the narrative and framework of the Bible, and I want to give it little more today than an introductory and cursory consideration.
Perhaps the most quoted chapter in this essential passage in Isaiah and the Bible is found in chapter 53.
This passage is quoted by Jesus in and served and serves as the central OT passage at the heart of Jesus’ understanding of himself and his calling.
In , we find the description of Jesus as Isaiah’s Suffering Servant.
Actually, this description of the Suffering Servant in is the fourth such description of Isaiah’s suffering servant!
The Servant Songs — the poems within the Poem:
These passages in serve as the heart of the passage as the prophet is conveying who the ONE shall be like who brings to pass the powers and mercies of the “arm of the Lord.”
Isaiah understands such powers and mercies of the Lord as the COMFORT of God to God’s people.
is all about COMFORT, about God, and the way God brings COMFORT to God’s people.
This comfort from God to God’s people is a very specific COMFORT to a very particular situation.
By the end of , Israel — rather the Kingdom of Judah — is going into EXILE.
King Hezekiah has hosted a group from Babylon, and he is so pleased!
He has shown to them all the riches of his house and Kingdom.
And God then conveys to Hezekiah that all he showed the Babylonians would end up belonging to the Babylonians:
isa 39:5
is placed as a word to a community facing EXILE, that has lost hope, that has forgotten how to hope, and that thinks God has forgotten them.
As in other places in Scripture, Isaiah steps up to convey that God has NOT forgotten God’s people!
God HAS BEEN FAITHFUL to God’s Covenant!
convey very clearly that when God’s people are faithful, they shall be blessed.
When they are unfaithful, they will go into EXILE.
God is faithful to the people and to the Covenant by THE WORD — the word of … the Word of … and it is by THE WORD of the Lord, that Comfort comes to God’s people...
The Word of Comfort goes like this:
The Exile has happened as a direct result of your idolatry and sin.
BUT now God has dealt with your sin.
And that dealing with sin means that exile, too, can be dealt with.
Sin and Exile are so closely related in the Scriptures that once God has dealt with sin, then return from Exile can happen.
So in the exile, the sin of God’s people is dealt with; which means God has dealt with their sin… which means the covenant can be renewed and new creation, new beginnings can emerge and bring COMFORT.
Isa 40.1-
Great power/Great glory along side Great Tenderness
And we see this relationship of power and tenderness through .
We see at the end of this powerful picture of new creation...
In as Adam and Eve are escorted out of the Garden, thorns and thistles emerge from the ground...
Isa 55:12-
As you read and study you will see the poem hold together:
The promise return from exile
The return of the Lord to His people
With the result of New Covenant and New Creation made available through the mighty and tender arm of the Lord within and through His Suffering Servant.
How will that be accomplished: God will speak it, and it will come to pass by His Word that goes out and never empty or void.
isaiah 40:
isa 55:
AND THAT IS THE COMFORT PROMISED BY GOD THEN AND BY GOD NOW.
Israel made and makes the common mistake all make --
When going into EXILE, it looks like God is smaller than the idols… “God, they are so big and you are so small?!
Where are you God?!!!!?”
Isa 42:
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