Isaiah

The theme of this chapter is much the same as that of the foregoing one. It prophetically describes the different state of the righteous and...

We are now drawing toward the conclusion of this Book of evangelical prophecy, and its last two chapters direct us to look as far forward as...

This chapter continues that earnest prayer which God’s people offered up to Him in the latter part of the last chapter. There, they had pleaded...

We cannot properly enter upon our study of this chapter, without first looking up to the Lord and asking for His blessing upon it. Surely there...

The bells of comfort seem to ring with quickening peals of blessing as we continue onward in this prophecy. Indeed, this chapter, in itself,...

Isaiah 61 Part 1 This entire chapter very properly follows the preceding one, in beautiful sequence and contrast! Chapter 60 contained an...

This whole chapter is a part of God’s Covenant with His Church, which was spoken of in the last verse of the foregoing chapter; and the...

In this chapter, we have sin portrayed as exceedingly sinful, and grace displayed as exceedingly gracious. The Lord’s people are here charged...

In this chapter, the prophet has his commission renewed to reprove the sinners in Zion (particularly the hypocrites), and to show them their...

This chapter opens by calling to our attention the carelessness and inattentiveness of the world, as they behold the operations of God in His...

After the exceedingly great and precious promises of Gospel-grace in the last chapter, which were foreshadowed by the temporal deliverance of...

Despite the materialistic worldview of our culture, there are certain things which money cannot buy. It would be absurd to bring gold or silver...

In the previous chapters, we have heard the Jewish exiles summoned to leave Babylon; and we have beheld the Divine Servant becoming the...

Isaiah 53 Part 1 This is certainly one unique and perfect prophecy – perhaps the most interesting in the Old Testament Scriptures. It is a...

There are few portions of Isaiah which combine both a historical reference and an evangelical theme as gloriously as this chapter does, and...

It is good for us all to look back upon the lowliness and obscurity of our origins. Such considerations deepen our humility, and augment our...

At the end of the last chapter, we examined some manifestations of our Lord’s tender love toward His people; and these are continued here in...

Isaiah 49 Part 1 Glorious things had been spoken in the previous chapters, concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon. But when...

The Lord reckoned with the Babylonians in the foregoing chapter – showing them their sins and the desolation that was coming upon them because...

The Lord’s infinite Wisdom could have ordered the turn of events so that the exiled Jews might have been released from captivity, while...