The final chapter of Isaiah is a difficult one to understand. God begins by encouraging people to be humble and contrite in spirit. He follows this up with an allegory about a woman giving birth suddenly, which may be intended to represent the rapid spread of Jesus’ Church. The final section speaks of a day of God’s judgement followed by God calling the nations of the world to worship Him as the recipients of Judah’s blessing.

The first half of Isaiah 65 is an expression of frustration by God that the majority of Judah did not love Him. He welcomed them with outstretched arms, but they chose their idols and the practices of paganism instead. The second half of the chapter is a promise to God’s people of a new heaven and a new earth. God would create these as a place of blessing and safety for His people.

Isaiah offered a prayer to God for the people of Judah. Isaiah 64 is a continuation of the second half of Isaiah 63. Isaiah asked God not to be angry with the people of Judah any longer, but to regard them as children. He prayed for God to come down from heaven and deliver them from their exile in Babylon.

Isaiah 63 begins with a description of God or perhaps His Messiah (Jesus), dressed in a red robe, stained with blood, having just returned from crushing His enemies in the wine press of His wrath. The second half of the chapter is a prayer offered by Isaiah. He acknowledged God’s faithfulness to Judah and plead with the Lord to show grace to the exiles of Judah in Babylon.

This chapter continues the prophetic theme observed in Isaiah 60 and 61, the future restoration of Judah by the Lord’s grace. God was going to make Zion a light of salvation to the world. Isaiah told the people to rejoice in Jerusalem, rebuild its ruins, and look to the horizon for the glorious coming of the Lord.

God’s Spirit foretold the “year of the Lord’s favor” when God would restore Judah’s national trajectory through the work of their Messiah (Jesus). Judah’s shame would be taken away, and they would be raised from ruins. Like a gardener, God would cause righteousness to sprout in the land.

Isaiah, through inspiration from God, foretells a glorious restoration for Zion and the people of Judah. This restoration would occur through the life, ministry, and reign of God’s Messiah (Jesus), who Isaiah prophesied about in previous section of his book.

Judah’s sins had separated them from God, and their country was soaked in sin. Isaiah confessed for his people and acknowledged that his fellow citizens were far from being what God wanted them to be. God declared that He would see justice done, even if He had to do it Himself. He told the people He would take vengeance on the wicked and send a Redeemer to save the repentant.

Isaiah is instructed to rebuke Judah and “not hold back,” due to their hypocritical lifestyle. Some in Judah started observing extra fast days. They fasted from food as a spiritual discipline, but God didn’t care about their avoidance of food. God called them to fast from wickedness, abuse of their neighbors, sinful pleasures, and disregard for the downcast.

Isaiah’s fifty-seventh chapter begins with a condemnation of idolatry and the Jews who loved to worship false Gods. Though they were wed to God, the people of Judah committed continual adultery with gods of foreign nations. The end of the chapter includes an offer of forgiveness from God to those in Judah who would repent with a contrite heart.

God invites Judah to return to Him for rich blessings, pardon, and His everlasting covenant. God was putting together a plan to glorify Himself through Judah, a plan that no man could predict. His plan would give the earth cause to rejoice and would be sealed with an everlasting covenant.

God invites Judah to return to Him for rich blessings, pardon, and His everlasting covenant. God was putting together a plan to glorify Himself through Judah, a plan that no man could predict. His plan would give the earth cause to rejoice and would be sealed with an everlasting covenant.

Isaiah speaks to Judah as if they are the bride of God. Because of their sins, they had been estranged from their husband, but God had plans to restore them. He promised to give them His everlasting love and to take them from the depression of a barren woman to the joy of a woman whose children filled many tents.

Isaiah 53 is one of the most beautiful and precise prophecies about God’s work through Jesus that exists in the Old Testament. Isaiah, 700 years before Jesus was born, prophesied how God’s servant would die for His people, carrying their guilt as His own, to reconcile them to God.

Isaiah 52 is a chapter of hope in which Isaiah prophecies the restoration of Jerusalem and God’s return to the city to reign in righteousness. The end of the chapter is extremely important and is the setup for the famous fifty third chapter of Isaiah, it reintroduces God’s special servant, prophesying his future glory and future suffering.

Isaiah 51 is a message of hope to those in Judah who loved God. God was going to restore their broken nation, He would take it from despair to flourishing, just as He took Abraham from fatherless to the father of many nations. God called the people to wake up and recognize His power, His eternal salvation, and to wake up from a period of discipline to prepare for a period of blessing.

Isaiah 50 is about the unfaithfulness of Judah and the faithfulness of God’s special servant. Judah had failed in their calling to represent the God of Heaven and bring Him glory. God had selected a new servant, the Messiah, who had yet to come, who would accomplish His will and bring Him glory through His suffering.

To show His superiority to the false pagan gods, God promised to prophecy “new things” which would come to pass in the future and prove His eternal providence and power. God told Judah they would spend time in the refining fires of Babylonian captivity, but He would eventually deliver them and bring them back to Jerusalem.

To show His superiority to the false pagan gods, God promised to prophecy “new things” which would come to pass in the future and prove His eternal providence and power. God told Judah they would spend time in the refining fires of Babylonian captivity, but He would eventually deliver them and bring them back to Jerusalem.

In Isaiah 47, the Kingdom of Babylon is portrayed as a beautiful woman who is loved by all the nations. But in her popularity, she grew proud and wicked. She thought she was untouchable, above the judgement of God or men, but God promised to humble her. God would humble Babylon after He used them as an instrument of discipline towards the people of Judah.