There is no agreement among scholars about the structure of chapters 41 through 46. Many different proposals have been put forward, ranging from the argument that there is no structure at all to complex parallelisms.1 What this tells us is that the material is complex and that any proposal must be presented with diffidence. The prophet’s method of presentation in these chapters seems to be the repetition of key themes in varying ways with a certain degree of increasing specificity. Then chapter 47 draws the conclusions of what has been said as regards Babylon, and chapter 48 is a call to
