An Outline of Isaiah

• PART ONE: The Assyrian Period: Conflict and Victory (1 – 39)
• Discourses and Prophecies Centering in Jerusalem and Judah (1 -12)
• Isaiah's personal introduction to his book (1)
• The sin-sick and rebellious nation (1-9)
• Corruption hiding behind hypocritical worship (10-15)
• God's call to reformation of life (16-20)
• The lament over Jerusalem (21-23)
• Redemption through purging (24-31)
• Jerusalem: the ideal and the real (2)
• Jerusalem the ideal (1-4)
• Corruption: The people have forsaken Jehovah (5-11)
• Judgment: A day of Jehovah (12-22)
• Political and social confusion (3-4)
• The wages of sin! (3:1-12)
• Judgment of the rulers (3:13-15)
• Indictment of vain and worldly women (3:16-26)
• Jerusalem the redeemed (4:1)
• The branch of Jehovah (4:2)
• The escaped of Israel—the remnant (4:3-4)
• Protection and guidance for the New Zion (4:5-6)
• The vineyard and its fruits (5)
• The song of the Beloved and his vineyard (1-7)
• Woe to greedy land-barons (8-10)
• Woe to heavy drinkers (11-17)
• Woe to them who are enslaved to sin (18-19)
• Woe to those who confuse moral distinctions (20)
• Woe to the self-deceived (21)
• Woe to the perverters of justice (22-23)
• Terrifying judgment (24-30)
• The vision and call of Isaiah (6)
• Isaiah's vision of the land (1-5)
• The consecration of the prophet (6-7)
• The prophet's commission from Jehovah (8-13)
• The Syro-Ephraimitic uprising (7)
• The Syria-Israel confederacy (1-2)
• Confrontation between belief and unbelief (3-9)
• The sign of Immanuel (10-17)
• The devastation from Assyria (18-25)
• Assyria: the overwhelming flood (8)
• The sign: Maher-shalal-hash-baz (1-4)
• The overwhelming flood: Assyria (5-8)
• Only Jehovah shall be your fear (9-15)
• Bind up the testimony (16-18)
• To the law and the testimony (19-22)
• The dawning light (9)
• Light shines in darkness (1-3)
• The basis of this joy (4-7)
• The arrogance of Ephraim (8-12)
• Israel to be cut off, head and tail (13-17)
• The devouring fire: wickedness and civil war (18-21)
• The use and doom of Assyria (10)
• Visitation and desolation (1-4)
• Assyria: Jehovah's rod (5-11)
• The Assyrian's boast and Jehovah's response (12-19)
• A remnant shall return (Shear-jashub) (20-23)
• Be not afraid! Though on his way, the Assyrian shall be brought low (24-34)
• The King, His subjects, and the remnant (11)
• The Shoot of Jesse (1-5)
• The character of the citizens (6-10)
• The remnant (11-16)
• Rejoicing and thanksgiving of the remnant (12)
• Oracles of Judgment Against Individual Nations (13-23)
• The oracle against Babylon (13)
• The call to arms (1-5)
• The terror of the day of Jehovah (6-16)
• The completeness of the destruction (17-22)
• A taunting song over the fall of the tyrant (14:1-27); the burden of Philistia (14:28-32)
• Compassion on Jacob (1-2)
• The taunting song against Babylon (3-11)
• The fall of the mighty (12-20)
• It is the vengeance of Jehovah (21-27)
• The oracle against Philistia (28-32)
• The burden of Moab—1 (15)
• Crying, weeping, and trembling over desolation (1-4)
• The prophet's lament (5-9)
• The burden of Moab—2 (16)
• Moab's hope (1-5)
• Moab's rejection of this hope (6-12)
• The fixed time of the visitation on Moab (13-14)
• The burden of Damascus (17)
• The judgment against Damascus (1-3)
• The leanness of Jacob (4-11)
• The destruction of the invader (12-14)
• Ethiopia (18)
• The ambassadors and the prophet's word to them (1-3)
• Jehovah is in control (4-6)
• Ethiopia's homage to the Lord (7)
• An oracle concerning Egypt (19)
• Threats (1-4)
• Natural and economic disaster (5-10)
• Foolish counsel (11-15)
• No spirit—only fear and terror (16-17)
• Promises (18-25)
• The transition from threats to promises (18)
• Jehovah to be known to Egypt (19-22)
• Universal worship of Jehovah (23-25)
• Egypt and Ethiopia: the trust that failed (20)
• Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia (21)
• Babylon, the wilderness of the sea (1-10)
• The hard vision (1-5)
• The watchman and his mission (6-10)
• The burden of Edom (11-12)
• The burden upon Arabia (13-17)
• The valley of vision: Jerusalem (22)
• Rebuke of the people's spirit of frivolity (1-14)
• The failure of the stewards (15-25)
• The burden of Tyre (23)
• The judgment of Tyre and the effect of her fall (1-7)
• Jehovah, the executioner of the judgment (8-12)
• The fate of Phoenicia: Though cast down, Tyre's prosperity shall be restored (13-18)
• World Judgment and Deliverance of God's People (24-27)
• A world judgment (24)
• Desolation of the earth and the world city (1-13)
• Premature rejoicing and more judgments (14-23)
• Hymns of thanksgiving for the divine mercy (25)
• A hymn of thanksgiving for victory over the terrible ones (1-5)
• Jehovah's feast for the nations (6-8)
• The joy of those who wait and the destruction of the proud (9-12)
• Glory to God for His righteous deeds! (26)
• Praise for the strong city (1-6)
• The effects of Jehovah's judgments (7-10)
• The Lord Jehovah versus "other lords" (11-15)
• From failure to victory (16-19)
• Wait for Jehovah (20-21)
• The overthrow of world power and ingathering of Israel (27)
• The new vineyard (1-6)
• Expiation and desolation (7-11)
• The ingathering of the outcasts (12-13)
• Jerusalem-Zion: Warnings and Promises (28-35)
• Drunkards—and the Stone in Zion (28)
• Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim (1-6)
• Woe to the drunken rulers in Judah (7-13)
• The rulers' covenant with death and Jehovah's foundation stone in Zion (14-22)
• A parable from agriculture (23-29)
• Woe to Ariel—and to those who hide their counsel from God (29)
• Woe to Ariel (1-14)
• Woe to those who hide their plans from God (15-24)
• Woe to the pro-Egyptian policy (30)
• Any alliance with Egypt is bound to fail (1-17)
• Prosperity through God's grace (Messianic) (18-26)
• Jehovah's vengeance on Assyria (27-33)
• Woe to them that go down to Egypt (31)
• God is also wise (1-3)
• God's providence: fierce yet compassionate (4-5)
• Call to repentance (6-7)
• Destruction of Assyria (8-9)
• The new order; warning, judgment, and blessedness (32)
• The new order (1-8)
• The righteous King and spiritual illumination (1-4)
• Moral distinctions are now clear (5-8)
• Warning, judgment, and blessedness (9-20)
• Warning to careless women (9-12)
• The judgment to come (13-15)
• Rest and quietness at last (16-20)
• The defeat of Assyria and victory of Jerusalem (33)
• Woe to the destroyer (1-6)
• The broken covenant and the devouring fire (7-16)
• The glory of Israel's King and Jerusalem-Zion (17-24)
• Judgments of the nations and Edom (34)
• Judgment of the nations (1-4)
• Judgment against Edom—a sacrifice (5-7)
• The judgment: total desolation (8-15)
• The certainty of the devastation (16-17)
• The way of holiness (35)
• The New Song (1-4)
• Cause for the rejoicing (5-7)
• The highway (8-10)
• Historical Link (36-39)
• The threat to Jerusalem (36)
• The emissaries sent by Sennacherib (1-3)
• Rabshakeh's defiant speech (4-10)
• The Jews' request (11-12)
• Rabshakeh's second speech (13-20)
• The report to Hezekiah (21-22)
• Victory through faith (37)
• Desperation, and an appeal to Isaiah (1-7)
• Sennacherib's renewed effort to persuade Hezekiah (8-13)
• Hezekiah's prayer before Jehovah (14-20)
• Jehovah's response—and answer to Sennacherib (21-29)
• A message of assurance to Hezekiah (30-35)
• It is done (36-38)
• Hezekiah's sickness and recovery (38)
• Hezekiah's sickness and prayer (1-8)
• Hezekiah's psalm of lamentation and thanksgiving (9-20)
• Hezekiah's healing (21-22)
• Not Assyria, but Babylon (39)
• Prophet versus king (1-4)
• The word of doom (5-8)
• PART TWO: Hope for Troublous Times (40-66)
• Introduction (40)
• A prologue (1-11)
• Comfort: pardon through grace (1-2)
• Make preparation (3-5)
• The enduring word (6-8)
• Declare the tidings (9-11)
• The incomparable greatness of Jehovah (12-31)
• Jehovah and creation (12-14)
• Jehovah and the nations (15-17)
• Jehovah and the idols (18-21)
• Jehovah and the princes of the earth (22-25)
• Jehovah and the glorious assurance (26-31)
• The contest between Jehovah and the Idols (41-48)
• Jehovah's confrontation with the idols (41)
• Jehovah addresses the nations (1-7)
• Jehovah addresses Israel: What He will do (8-20)
• Jehovah challenges the idols: What can you do? (21-29)
• Jehovah's Servant and Israel's punishment (42)
• Jehovah's Servant (1-9)
• A new song of praise to Jehovah (10-17)
• Israel, Jehovah's blind and deaf servant, to be punished (18-25)
• "Ye are my witnesses … Besides Me there is no Saviour" (43)
• A renewed promise to Israel of deliverance and protection (1-7)
• A fresh challenge to Israel and the nations (8-13)
• Jehovah's power to remove obstacles in redeeming his people (14-21)
• Israel's indifference—Jehovah's grace (22-28)
• The folly of idolatry (44)
• Israel's blessings in spite of the curse (1-5)
• Israel's King—the only God (6-8)
• The shame and folly of idolatry (9-20)
• Pardon and praise (21-23)
• Cyrus the deliverer is named (24-28)
• "Unto Me every knew shall bow" (45)
• Jehovah addresses Cyrus: his mission (1-7)
• Heaven's cooperation invoked (8)
• Jehovah's response to Israel's complaint (9-13)
• The effect of Israel's redemption upon the Gentiles (14-17)
• Jehovah's purpose in creation (18-29)
• Jehovah and the gods of Babylon (46)
• The shame of Babylon's gods (1-2)
• The glory of Israel's God (3-11)
• Salvation is drawing near (12-13)
• Jehovah's judgment pronounced on Babylon (47)
• The humiliation of Babylon (1-7)
• Babylon's blasphemous claims and their consequences (8-11)
• The failure of Babylon's occult arts (12-15)
• Assurance of deliverance (48)
• Rebuke of Israel's hypocrisy and stubbornness (1-11)
• Jehovah's faithfulness (12-16)
• What might have been and what will be (17-22)
• The Servant and the Glory of Zion (49-57)
• The Servant and despondent Zion (49)
• Endowments for his work (1-4)
• The enlarged mission (5-7)
• Salvation and succor (8-13)
• Zion's complaint and amazement (14-21)
• Jehovah's assurance to Zion (22-26)
• The Servant as a suffering prophet—a soliloquy (50)
• Rebuke to the exiles for thinking themselves rejected (1-3)
• The Servant's soliloquy (4-9)
• Light for believers, sorrow for unbelievers (10-11)
• Encouragement for Prostrate Zion—1 (51)
• Hearken! An exhortation to the faithful (1-8)
• An appeal to Jehovah and his reply (9-16)
• Jerusalem, Awake! Standup! —Her tragic plight (17-20)
• Jehovah's gracious promise (21-23)
• Encouragement for prostrate Zion—2 (52:1-12)
• Awake, Jerusalem! Put on your beautiful garments (1-6)
• The herald of good news, and an exhortation (7-12)
• Victory through vicarious suffering (52:13-53:12)
• Exaltation of the Servant (52:13-15)
• Acquaintance with grief (53:1-3)
• Ill treatment: the Servant's vicarious suffering (53:4-6)
• Total submission of the Servant (53:7-9)
• Victory and reward (53:10-12)
• The future splendor of Zion (54)
• The joy and enlargement of Zion (1-8)
• "As the waters of Noah" (9-10)
• Jerusalem's glory and permanence in the Messianic age (11-17)
• The great invitation: free mercy for all (55)
• Come and partake without price (1-5)
• "Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found" (6-13)
• Consolation for the rejected: a rebuke of the blind watchman (56)
• Consolation for foreigners and eunuchs (1-8)
• A rebuke of the blind watchmen (9-12)
• A rebuke of the wickedness of Isaiah's day (57)
• "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord" (1-2)
• Idolatry and faithlessness severely rebuked (3-13)
• The condescending love of God (14-21)
• National sins, redemption by Jehovah, and future glory (58-66)
• Right and wrong observances of fasts and Sabbaths (58)
• Cry out! Spare not! (1-2)
• Hypocritical formalism versus true fasting (3-12)
• Proper observance of the Sabbath (13-14)
• Sin: The wall of separation (59)
• Jehovah's change against the people (1-8)
• The prophet's reply: A confession of wickedness (9-15a)
• Jehovah's response: Vengeance and deliverance (15b-21)
• Glorious Zion—1 (60)
• Made glorious through the light of Jehovah's presence (1-3)
• Made glorious through the return of her children (4-9)
• Made glorious through offerings (10-14)
• Made glorious through her eternal excellency (15-18)
• Made glorious through Jehovah's everlasting light (19-22)
• Glorious Zion—2 (61)
• The herald of good tidings (1-3)
• The mission and blessing of the redeemed (4-9)
• Zion's burst of praise (10-11)
• Salvation is drawing near (62)
• The new name and glory of Zion (1-5)
• Jehovah's protection and provision for Zion (6-9)
• Salvation of the Daughter of Zion (10-12)
• Vengeance, mercy, and a prayer (63)
• Jehovah's vengeance on His enemies (1-6)
• Jehovah's enduring love for His people (7-9)
• The people's response: Rebellion (10-14)
• An impassioned prayer for mercy and help (15-19)
• A fervent prayer (64)
• Prayer for Jehovah's presence and action (1-7)
• A renewed cry for mercy (8-12)
• Jehovah's response to the prayer (65)
• Destruction of the apostates: a just recompense (1-7)
• Salvation of a remnant—destruction of the faithless (8-12)
• Blessings and judgment (13-16)
• The new heavens and the new earth (17-25)
• Jehovah's judgments—Zion's rejoicing (66)
• Jehovah's greatness and the abomination of idolatry (1-6)
• Blessings in the New Zion (7-14)
• Indignation against the idolaters (15-17)
• Jehovah's glory proclaimed to the world and the response (18-24)

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