The Book of Isaiah
Isaiah is the towering prophet of the Old Testament, often called the fifth Gospel because it points so clearly to Christ. Writing to a Judah drifting toward judgment, Isaiah confronts the people with the blazing holiness of the Holy One of Israel, exposing their pride, idolatry, and empty religion. Yet the same God who thunders against sin also speaks tenderly: he promises Immanuel, a child on whose shoulders the government will rest, a righteous Branch from the stump of Jesse, and a Servant pierced for our transgressions. From the courtroom of chapter 1 to the new heavens and new earth of chapter 66, Isaiah weaves judgment and salvation into one breathtaking vision of a God who humbles the proud, comforts the broken, and saves a people for his own glory.
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Isaiah unveils the holiness and salvation of the Holy One of Israel, moving from judgment on Judah and the nations, through the comfort of the incomparable God and his Suffering Servant, to the glory of a renewed creation.
Open overview → Chapter 1The Great Courtroom Indictment
God summons heaven and earth as witnesses against his rebellious people, yet pleads with them to come and reason, offering to make scarlet sins white as snow.
Open study → Chapter 2The Mountain and the Humbled
Isaiah sees the LORD's mountain exalted above all and the nations streaming to it, then warns that the day of the LORD will bring every proud thing low.
Open study → Chapter 3When Leaders Fail
God strips away Judah's leaders and securities, exposing rulers who devour the poor and a complacent people heading toward ruin.
Open study → Chapter 4The Branch and Cleansed Zion
After judgment, the LORD's branch is beautiful and glorious, and a cleansed remnant dwells under God's sheltering presence in a renewed Zion.
Open study → Chapter 5The Song of the Vineyard
God sings a love song over his vineyard that yielded only wild grapes, then pronounces a series of woes on a people who have rejected his word.
Open study → Chapter 6Holy, Holy, Holy
Isaiah sees the LORD high and lifted up, is undone by his holiness, cleansed by a live coal, and sent with a hard and humbling message.
Open study → Chapter 7The Sign of Immanuel
As enemy kings threaten Jerusalem, God offers faithless Ahaz a sign, promising a child called Immanuel, God with us.
Open study → Chapter 8God With Us
Isaiah names his son for swift judgment on Judah's enemies, warns against fear and false guidance, and clings to the LORD as sanctuary.
Open study → Chapter 9For to Us a Child
On those walking in darkness a great light dawns, for a child is born whose government and peace will never end, the Prince of Peace.
Open study → Chapter 10Woe to the Rod
God wields proud Assyria as the rod of his anger, then judges the axe that boasted against the hand, while a remnant returns to the mighty God.
Open study → Chapter 11The Shoot From Jesse
From the cut-down stump of Jesse a Spirit-filled King arises, judging with righteousness and ushering in a kingdom where the wolf lies down with the lamb.
Open study → Chapter 12A Song of Salvation
The redeemed sing in that day, thanking God whose anger has turned away, trusting him as their strength, and proclaiming his name to the nations.
Open study → Chapter 13The Burden of Babylon
Isaiah announces the day of the LORD against proud Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, which God will overthrow like Sodom and leave forever desolate.
Open study → Chapter 14The Fall of the King
God promises rest to his people and takes up a taunt against the proud king of Babylon, whose self-exalting heart is cast down to the depths.
Open study → Chapter 15A Lament Over Moab
In a single night Moab's cities are laid waste, and even the prophet's heart cries out over a proud neighbor reduced to weeping and ruin.
Open study → Chapter 16A Throne in Loving Kindness
Moab is urged to seek refuge in Zion, but its pride refuses, even as the oracle glimpses a throne of steadfast love in the tent of David.
Open study → Chapter 17When Strong Cities Fail
Damascus and Ephraim's glory will fade like a fading harvest, but in that day people will at last look to their Maker rather than the work of their hands.
Open study → Chapter 18The Watching God
While a distant land sends frantic ambassadors, the Lord declares that he will quietly watch from his dwelling until the time is ripe to act.
Open study → Chapter 19Egypt Will Know the Lord
The Lord shakes Egypt's idols and wisdom to nothing, yet promises a stunning day when Egypt, Assyria, and Israel worship him together.
Open study → Chapter 20A Sign Walked Barefoot
Isaiah walks stripped and barefoot for three years as a living sign that trusting Egypt and Cush for rescue will end in shame.
Open study → Chapter 21Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon
A watchman strains through the night for a grievous vision, until the cry rings out that mighty Babylon has fallen, with brief words for Edom and Arabia.
Open study → Chapter 22The Valley of Vision
Jerusalem feasts and fortifies in crisis but will not look to her Maker, while a self-serving steward is replaced by a faithful servant given the key of David.
Open study → Chapter 23The Pride of Tyre
The wealthy merchant city of Tyre is brought low, for the Lord has purposed to stain the pride of all human glory and humble the honored of the earth.
Open study → Chapter 24The Earth Laid Waste
The Lord empties and judges the whole earth for breaking the everlasting covenant, until joy fails, the city of chaos lies in ruins, and the Lord reigns on Zion.
Open study → Chapter 25He Will Swallow Up Death
On his mountain the Lord spreads a feast for all peoples, swallows up death forever, and wipes away the tears from every face.
Open study → Chapter 26Perfect Peace
A song of the strong city celebrates the steadfast mind kept in perfect peace, the everlasting Rock, and the dead who will rise to sing.
Open study → Chapter 27The Lord's Vineyard Restored
On that day the Lord sings over his pleasant vineyard, watering and guarding it, until Jacob takes root and Israel fills the world with fruit.
Open study → Chapter 28The Precious Cornerstone in Zion
Against the proud drunkards of Ephraim and the scoffers of Jerusalem, God lays in Zion a tried and precious cornerstone for all who believe.
Open study → Chapter 29Lips That Honor From Afar
God lays siege to Ariel, exposes worship that is all lips and no heart, and promises a day when the deaf hear and the blind see.
Open study → Chapter 30Salvation in Quietness and Trust
Woe to those who run to Egypt for help; their strength is to wait for the gracious God who longs to be merciful to them.
Open study → Chapter 31Look to the Holy One
Woe to those who lean on Egypt's horses and chariots, for the Lord of Armies himself will hover over Jerusalem to protect and deliver it.
Open study → Chapter 32A King Will Reign in Righteousness
A coming king and his princes will rule in justice, and when the Spirit is poured out from on high, the wilderness becomes a peaceful, fruitful field.
Open study → Chapter 33The Lord Our Judge and King
When the destroyer is destroyed, the Lord arises exalted in Zion as judge, lawgiver, and king, and his people behold the King in his beauty.
Open study → Chapter 34The Day of the Lord's Vengeance
The nations and especially Edom are summoned to hear of God's sword of judgment, a day of vengeance for the cause of Zion.
Open study → Chapter 35The Ransomed Return With Singing
The desert blossoms, weak hands are strengthened, and the redeemed walk a Holy Way home to Zion with everlasting joy on their heads.
Open study → Chapter 36Sennacherib's Threat at the Wall
Assyria's field commander mocks Hezekiah's trust in the Lord, taunting Jerusalem to surrender and abandon its God.
Open study → Chapter 37Hezekiah's Prayer and God's Answer
Hezekiah spreads the enemy's threat before the Lord, and God answers, defending Jerusalem and striking the Assyrian army in the night.
Open study → Chapter 38Hezekiah's Illness and Healing
Mortally ill, Hezekiah weeps and prays; God adds fifteen years to his life and turns back the shadow as a sign.
Open study → Chapter 39The Envoys From Babylon
Hezekiah proudly shows Babylon's envoys all his treasures, and Isaiah foretells that those treasures and his sons will be carried to Babylon.
Open study → Chapter 40Comfort My People
A voice cries comfort over a weary people, announcing the coming of God, the frailty of all flesh, and the strength he gives to those who wait.
Open study → Chapter 41Fear Not, I Am With You
God summons the nations to court, exposes the helplessness of idols, and reassures Israel his servant that he will strengthen, help, and uphold them.
Open study → Chapter 42A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break
God presents his chosen Servant who brings gentle, faithful justice to the nations, and calls a blind and deaf people back to himself.
Open study → Chapter 43You Are Mine
God promises to be with his redeemed people through every flood and fire, gathers them from the ends of the earth, and blots out their sins for his own sake.
Open study → Chapter 44There Is No Other Rock
God pours out his Spirit on his servant, mocks the folly of idol-making, and proclaims himself Israel’s Redeemer who blots out sin like a cloud.
Open study → Chapter 45The LORD’s Anointed Instrument
God names Cyrus as his anointed to free his people, asserts that he alone is God, and calls all the ends of the earth to look to him and be saved.
Open study → Chapter 46The God Who Carries
Babylon’s idols must be hauled away as burdens, but the LORD has carried his people from birth and will carry them to the end.
Open study → Chapter 47The Fall of Babylon
The proud city that showed no mercy is brought down from her throne to the dust, her sorceries and self-confidence powerless to save her.
Open study → Chapter 48I Am the First and the Last
God reproves his stubborn people for their false worship, refines them for his own name’s sake, and calls them to leave Babylon with singing.
Open study → Chapter 49A Light to the Nations
The Servant, called from the womb, is given as salvation to the ends of the earth, and Zion is assured she is never forgotten by God.
Open study → Chapter 50I Set My Face Like Flint
The obedient Servant listens, teaches, and endures striking and shame with unshaken trust, while God invites the faltering to lean on his name.
Open study → Chapter 51Awake, Awake
God calls his people to look to their origins and his everlasting salvation, then summons both his own arm and weary Jerusalem to awake.
Open study → Chapter 52How Beautiful Are the Feet
Zion is called to awake and put on beauty as good news of God’s reign rings out, and the exalted yet marred Servant is introduced.
Open study → Chapter 53The Man of Sorrows
A despised and rejected servant bears our sickness and sin, pierced for our transgressions, that by his wounds we might be healed.
Open study → Chapter 54The Barren One Sings
The forsaken city is told to enlarge her tent, for her Maker is her husband and his covenant of peace will never be removed.
Open study → Chapter 55Come, Everyone Who Thirsts
God invites the thirsty and penniless to a free feast of grace, to seek him while he may be found, for his word never returns empty.
Open study → Chapter 56A House for All Peoples
God welcomes the foreigner and the eunuch who hold fast his covenant, promising a name and a house of prayer for all nations.
Open study → Chapter 57Peace for the Contrite
God indicts idolatry and faithlessness, yet dwells with the lowly and contrite, healing and giving peace to those near and far.
Open study → Chapter 58The Fast God Chooses
God exposes empty religion and calls his people to a fast that frees the oppressed, feeds the hungry, and lets their light break forth.
Open study → Chapter 59The Redeemer Comes to Zion
Sin separates the people from God, and when no one intercedes, God's own arm brings salvation and a Redeemer comes to Zion.
Open study → Chapter 60Arise, Shine
Light dawns on Zion as God's glory rises; the nations stream to her brightness and the Lord becomes her everlasting light.
Open study → Chapter 61The Year of the Lord's Favor
Anointed by the Spirit, the herald proclaims good news to the poor and freedom to captives, the very words Jesus claimed as his own.
Open study → Chapter 62Zion's New Name
God will not rest until Zion's salvation shines; he gives her a new name and sets watchmen to plead until she is a praise in the earth.
Open study → Chapter 63Mighty to Save
The warrior returns from treading the winepress of judgment, and the prophet recalls God's mercies and pleads for his fatherly return.
Open study → Chapter 64We Are the Clay
The prophet pleads for God to tear open the heavens and come down, confessing the people's sin and resting in God as Father and potter.
Open study → Chapter 65New Heavens and New Earth
God answers a rebellious people, distinguishes his servants from the faithless, and promises a new creation of joy where he answers before they call.
Open study → Chapter 66All Flesh Shall Worship
God looks to the humble and contrite, gathers all nations to see his glory, and establishes a new creation that endures forever.
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