Isaiah Understanding the Bible Commentary Series

includes index and biblioraphy

Jerusalem Judged and Restored ................33 The Last Days and the Day of Yahweh for Jerusalem .............42 Judgement missed and Demonstrated ..........52 Isaiah`s Commission : To stop people Hearing ..........58 Coping with the Pressure from Syria and Ephraim .......63 Isaiah`s Significance, and the Fall of Darkness ..............69 Yahweh`s Unstead anger with Israel .......74 The Felling of Assyria and the growth of a Branch ..........78 A song to sing on the day of Salvation ............89 Introduction to Chapters 13-23.............91 Poems about Judah`s Neighbors and About Jerusalem Itself ............106 Poems About Southern Powers..............116 Poems about NOrthern Powers and about Jerusalem Itself .............124 Devastation and Renewal for the Whole Land ..........136 Introduction to Chapters 28-33.........151 Oh you Drunken Leaders .............153 Oh you City of David ...............159 Oh you Obstinate Nation ...........165 Oh You People who Rely on Egypt ..........176 Oh You Destroyer who has not been Destroyed ..........184 Streams Turned into Desolation, Desert into Pools .........193 Hezekiah`s Great Political Crisis confronts him ...........201 Hezekiah`s Responds to his Great political Crisis ..........209 A more Equivocal Response to two Further Challenges .............216 The Gifts of Comfort and Energy ............222 Fear Not, Servant Israel .............230 The Restoration of a Blind and Deaf Servant, I .....................244 The Restoration of a Blind and Deaf Servant II ...............251 Cyrus, Yahweh`s Anointed Shephered .........258 The Fall of the Gods and Their city .............267 Now is the Time for Response ...........274 To restore the people and the Land .........280 Four wake-up calls and a Departure call ...............289 A new Revelation of Yahweh`s Arm ...........301 Back in Palestine: Yahweh`s Vision for an open community ...........315 The prayer that needs to be prayed ........331 A Vision of Yahweh acting in wrath, 1 ..........334 Five Responses to Yahweh`s Promises ............345 Where are your Zeal and your might ..........355 Yahwe`s Closing critique and Visions ...........365 A final Vision for the Nations .............373