Isaiah Outline

I) Judgment

a. Prophecies Concerning Judah and Jerusalem (1:1-12-6)

i. Judah’s social sins (1:1-6:13)

ii. Judah’s political entanglements (7:1-12:6)

b. Oracles of Judgment and Salvation (13:1-23:8)

i. Babylon and Assyria (13:1-23:18)

ii. Philistia (14:28-32)

iii. Moab (15:1-16:14)

iv. Syria and Israel (17:1-14)

v. Ethiopia (18:1-7)

vi. Egypt (19:1-20:6)

vii. Babylon continued (21:1-10)

viii. Edom (21:11-12)

ix. Arabia (21:13-17)

x. Jerusalem (22:1-25)

xi. Tyre (23:1-18)

c. Redemption of Israel through World Judgment (24:1-27:13)

i. God’s devastation of the earth (24:1-23)

ii. First song of thanksgiving for redemption (25:1-12)

iii. Second song of thanksgiving for redemption (26:1-19)

iv. Israel’s chastisements and final prosperity (26:20-27:13)

d. Warnings Against Alliance with Egypt (28:1-35:10)

i. Woe to drunken politicians (28:1-29)

ii. Woe to religious formalists (29:1-14)

iii. Woe to those who hid plans from God (29:15-24)

iv. Woe to the pro-Egyptian party (30:1-33)

v. Woe to those who trust in horses and chariots (31:1-32:20)

vi. Woe to the Assyrian destroyer (33:1-24)

vii. A cry for justice against the nations, particularly Edom (34:1-35:10)

II) Historical Interlude (36:1-39:8)

a. Sennacherib’s Attempt to Capture Jerusalem (36:1-37:38)

b. Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery (38:1-22)

c. Babylonian Emissaries to Jerusalem (38:1-8)

III) Salvation (40:1-66:24)

a. Deliverance from Captivity (40:1-58:22)

i. Comfort to the Babylonian exiles (40:1-31)

ii. The end of Israel’s misery (41:1-48:22)

b. Sufferings of the Servant of the Lord (49:1-57:21)

i. The Servant’s mission (49:1-52:12)

ii. Redemption by the Suffering Servant (52:13-53:12)

iii. Results of the Suffering Servant’s redemption (54:1-57:21)

c. Future Glory of God’s People (58:1-66:24)

i. Two kinds of religion (58:1-14)

ii. Plea to Israel to forsake their sins (59:1-19)

iii. Future blessedness of Zion (59:20-61:11)

iv. Nearing of Zion’s deliverance (62:1-63:6)

v. Prayer for national deliverance (63:7-64:12)

iv. The Lord’s answer to Israel’s supplication (65:1-66:24)