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Isaiah: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

Alastair Roberts

Isaiah: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

February 16, 2022
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

*CONTENTS*

00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Bring No More Vain Offerings!

00:21:11 - Chapter 2: Mount Zion Lifted Up

00:34:51 - Chapter 3: Daughters of Zion Judged

00:43:51 - Chapter 4: Branch of the Lord Glorified

00:51:41 - Chapter 5: The Ruined Vineyard

01:02:54 - Chapter 6: Isaiah's Temple Vision

01:18:16 - Chapter 7: Immanuel

01:38:54 - Chapter 8: The Assyrians

01:50:33 - Chapter 9: Unto to Us a Child is Born

02:01:32 - Chapter 10: Judgment Upon Assyria

02:09:12 - Chapter 11: The Branch's Reign

02:18:55 - Chapter 12: Song of Thanksgiving

02:24:31 - Chapter 13: Judgment on Babylon

02:35:04 - Chapter 14: Taunt Over Babylon

02:47:27 - Chapter 15: Moab

02:55:20 - Chapter 16: Judgment Upon Moab

03:02:08 - Chapter 17: Damascus

03:08:44 - Chapter 18: Cush

03:15:38 - Chapter 19: Egypt

03:27:06 - Chapter 20: A Sign Against Egypt and Cush

03:31:53 - Chapter 21: Babylon is Fallen

03:43:23 - Chapter 22: Judgment Upon Jerusalem

03:52:07 - Chapter 23: Tyre and Sidon

04:01:48 - Chapter 24: Whole Earth Judged

04:10:08 - Chapter 25: All Tears Wiped Away

04:16:49 - Chapter 26: The Earth Will Give Birth to the Dead

04:25:21 - Chapter 27: Redemption for Israel

04:35:36 - Chapter 28: Laying a Cornerstone in Zion

04:47:25 - Chapter 29: Siege of Jerusalem

04:55:26 - Chapter 30: A People Shall Dwell in Zion

05:06:39 - Chapter 31: Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

05:14:07 - Chapter 32: A King Will Reign in Righteousness

05:22:05 - Chapter 33: The Lord Will Restore Zion

05:34:56 - Chapter 34: Judgment Upon the Nations

05:47:32 - Chapter 35: The Ransomed Shall Return

05:56:14 - Chapter 36: Sennacherib Invades

06:05:02 - Chapter 37: Deliverance from the Assyrians

06:13:38 - Chapter 38: Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery

06:24:30 - Chapter 39: Visit of the Babylonians

06:34:23 - Chapter 40: Comfort, Comfort My People

06:54:51 - Chapter 41: Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel

07:06:58 - Chapter 42: The Servant

07:21:52 - Chapter 43: Besides Me There is No Saviour

07:30:23 - Chapter 44: The Vanity of Idolatry

07:43:54 - Chapter 45: Cyrus, God's Servant

07:53:11 - Chapter 46: Humiliation of Babylon's Idols

08:00:25 - Chapter 47: Babylon Brought Low

08:07:57 - Chapter 48: The Former Things I Declared of Old

08:22:24 - Chapter 49: A Light to the Nations

08:35:43 - Chapter 50: Who Among You Fears the Lord?

08:43:51 - Chapter 51: Awake, Awake, Put on Strength, O Arm of the Lord

08:54:57 - Chapter 52: Your God Reigns!

09:02:41 - Chapter 53: The Suffering of the Servant

09:22:17 - Chapter 54: Sing, O Barren One!

09:31:58 - Chapter 55: You Shall Go Out in Joy

09:39:11 - Chapter 56: Salvation for the Foreigner

09:48:51 - Chapter 57: The Futility of Idolatry

09:56:49 - Chapter 58: True Fasting

10:06:14 - Chapter 59: The Lord Dresses for Judgment

10:15:15 - Chapter 60: Arise, Shine, for Your Light has Come!

10:26:49 - Chapter 61: The Year of the Lord's Favour Announced

10:38:47 - Chapter 62: A City Not Forsaken

10:45:48 - Chapter 63: The Lord's Day of Vengeance

11:00:15 - Chapter 64: Oh That You Would Rend the Heavens

11:07:29 - Chapter 65: New Heavens and a New Earth

11:20:11 - Chapter 66: Zion Brings Forth Her Children

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