![]() I, the holy God of Israel, am the one who saves you.ġ5 I will make you like a threshing board, They are frightened and tremble with fear.Ħ The craftsmen help and encourage one another.ħ The carpenter says to the goldsmith, ‘Well done!’Įncourages the one who nails it together.Īnd they fasten the idol in place with nails.Ĩ 41.8: 2 Chr 20.7 Jas 2.23 “But you, Israel my servant,ĩ I brought you from the ends of the earth I, the LORD, was there at the beginning,Īnd I, the LORD, will be there at the end.ĥ “The people of distant lands have seen what I have done Who has determined the course of history? So fast that he hardly touches the ground! His arrows scatter them like straw before the wind.ģ He follows in pursuit and marches safely on, His sword strikes them down as if they were dust. Who gives him victory over kings and nations? Let us come together to decide who is right.Ģ “Who was it that brought the conqueror from the east, 41.2 the conqueror from the east : Cyrus, the emperor of Persia (see 45.1).Īnd makes him triumphant wherever he goes? 51:9– 11), which is why he can declare them beforehand.“Be silent and listen to me, you distant lands! 42:9 43:9, 18 46:9– 10 48:3– 8) both the old things (e.g., creation, exodus) and the new things (release from exile) God brings to pass (cf. Second Isaiah makes frequent reference to “things of long ago,” sometimes in conjunction with “things to come” or “new things” in connection with the Lord’s activity (cf. * Things of long ago…things to come: there are no predictions attributed to idols that have since been fulfilled. By such polemics (see also 43:12) the prophet declares that all gods other than the Lord are nonexistent this implicit claim of monotheism later becomes explicit (see 43:10– 11 45:5– 7, 14, 18, 21– 22 46:9 and note on 44:6). Israel’s God, on the other hand, has foretold and now brings to pass Israel’s deliverance (vv. * This indictment of Babylonian gods is patterned on a legal trial, in which they are challenged to prove power over events of history and so justify their status as gods (vv. * Redeemer: in Hebrew, go’el, one who frees others from slavery and avenges their sufferings cf. The same designation is used in 44:6 and 48:12. * The first…the last: God as the beginning and end encompasses all reality. For Second Isaiah, the meteoric success of Cyrus was the work of the Lord to accomplish the deliverance promised by earlier prophets. He rebelled against the Babylonian overlords in 556 B.C., and after a series of victories, entered Babylon as victor in 539 the following year he issued a decree which allowed the Jewish captives to return to their homeland ( 2 Chr 36:22– 23 Ezr 1:1– 4). The ruler is Cyrus ( 44:28 45:1), king of Anshan in Persia, a vassal of the Babylonians. * Earlier prophets had spoken of the Assyrians and Babylonians as the Lord’s instruments for the punishment of Israel’s sins here the Lord is described as raising up and giving victory to a foreign ruler in order to deliver Israel from the Babylonian exile. Or, “I will give Jerusalem a herald of good news.” Not one of you foretold it, not one spoke Ģ7“The first news for Zion: here they come,” He shall trample the rulers down like mud,Ģ6Who announced this from the beginning, that we might know That the hand of the L ORD has done this,īring forward your arguments, says the King of Jacob.Ģ5I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes Together with the plane tree and the pine, I will turn the wilderness into a marshland,Īnd the dry ground into springs of water.ġ9In the wilderness I will plant the cedar, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.ġ8I will open up rivers on the bare heights, In the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.ġ7The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, *ġ6When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.ġ1Yes, all shall be put to shame and disgrace Then fastening it with nails so it will not totter.ĩYou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth The one who beats with the hammer, him who strikes on the anvil, Who has called forth the generations from the beginning? aħThe woodworker encourages the goldsmith, 2Who has stirred up from the East the champion of justice,ģHe pursues them, passing on without loss,
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