Outline of Isaiah the Prophet
The basis for this commentary and outline is taken from the Isaiah Tape Series from Arnold Fruchtenbaum and Ariel Ministries in San Antonio, Texas.
Introduction to Isaiah Son of Amoz – 1:1 (Ad)
I. Isaiah’s Great Indictment Against Israel – 1:2-31 (Ae)
A. Isra’el’s Sin and Punishment – 1:2-9 (Af)
1. God’s Case Against Israel – 1:2-4 (Ag)
2. The Daughter of Zion is left like a Shelter in a Vineyard – 1:5-9 (Ah)
B. The Multitude of Your Sacrifices, What Are They to Me – 1:10-17 (Ai)
1. Stop Bringing Meaningless Offerings – 1:10-15 (Aj)
2. Wash and Make Yourselves Clean – 1:16-17 (Ak)
C. Come Now, Let Us Reason Together – 1:18-20 (Al)
D. Your Rulers are Rebels – 1:21-23 (Am)
E. I Will Restore Your Judges – 1:24-31 (An)
II. Jerusalem Purged by Judgment then Blessed – 2:1 to 4:6 (Ao)
A. They Will Beat Their Swords into Plowshares – 2:1-4 (Ap)
B. Zion’s Pathetic Present Condition and the Judgment to Follow 2:5 to 4:1 (Aq)
1. O House of Jacob, Let Us Walk in the Light – 2:5-8 (Ar)
2. The Eyes of the Arrogant Will Be Humbled – 2:9-11 (As)
3. Gold and Silver Will Be Thrown to Rodents and Bats – 2:12-21 (At)
4. Judgment Against the Leaders of His People – 2:22 to 3:15 (Au)
5. The Women of Zion Are Haughty – 4:2-6 (Av)
C. The Believing Remnant in the Messianic Kingdom – 4:2-6 (Aw)
1. The Branch of the LORD Will Be Beautiful and Glorious – 4:2-4 (Ax)
2. A Cloud of Smoke by Day and a Glow of Fire by Night – 4:5-6 (Ay)
III. The Vineyard of the LORD is the House of Isra’el – 5:1-30 (Az)
A. The Song of the Vineyard – 5:1-7 (Ba)
B. The Six Woes of Isaiah – 5:8-25 (Bb)
1. Woe To You Who Add House to House – 5:8-10 (Bc)
2. Woe To You Who Run After Their Wine – 5:11-12 (Bd)
3. Therefore My People Will Go into Exile – 5:13 (Be)
4. Therefore The Grave Enlarges Its Appetite – 5:14-17 (Bf)
5. Woe To Those Who Draw Sin With Cords of Deceit – 5:18-19 (Bg)
6. Woe To Those Who Call Evil Good and Good Evil – 5:20 (Bh)
7. Woe To Those Are Wise in Their Own Eyes – 5:21 (Bi)
8. Woe To Those Who Acquit the Guilty for a Bribe – 5:22-23 (Bj)
9. Therefore as Tongues of Fire Lick Up Straw – 5:24 (Bk)
10. Therefore the LORD’s Anger Burns Against His People – 5:25 (Bl)
C. He Lifts Up a Banner for the Distant Nations – 5:26-30 (Bm)
IV. The Call of Isaiah – 6:1-13 (Bn)
A. In the Year King Uzziah Died – 6:1-4 (Bo)
B. The Cleansing of Isaiah – 6:5-7 (Bp)
1. I Am a Man of Unclean Lips – 6:5 (Bq)
2. Your Guilt is Taken Away and Your Sin Atoned For – 6:6-7 (Br)
C. Who Shall I Send? And Who Will Go For Us? – 6:8-10 (Bs)
D. Until the LORD Has Sent Everyone Far Away – 6:11-13 (Bt)
V. The Book of Immanuel – 7:1to 12:6 (Bu)
A. The Kings of Assyria and Judah (Bv)
B. The Sign of Immanuel – 7:1-25 (Bw)
1. The Hearts of Ahaz and His People Were Shaken – 7:1-2 (Bx)
2. Take Your Son Sher-Jashub to Meet Ahaz – 7:3-9 (By)
3. The Sign for Ahaz – 7:10-17 (Bz)
a. Ask the LORD Your God for a Sign – 7:10-12 (Ca)
b. The LORD Himself Will Give You a Sign – 7:13-14 (Cb)
c. He Will Eat Curds and Honey – 7:15-17 (Cc)
4. In That Day the LORD Will Whistle – 7:18-25 (Cd)
C. The Birth of Immanuel – 8:1 to 9:7 (Ce)
1. The Sign of Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz – 8:1-4 (Cf)
2. Mighty Floodwaters: The King of Assyria – 8:5-10 (Cg)
3. A Stone that Causes Men to Stumble – 8:11-15 (Ch)
4. Why Consult the Dead on Behalf of the Living – 8:16-22 (Ci)
5. He Will Honor Galilee of the Gentiles – 9:1-3 (Cj)
6. He will Be Called the Prince of Peace – 9:4-7 (Cl)
a. For As in the Day of Midian’s Defeat – 9:4-5 (Cl)
b. For To Us a Child is Born – 9:6-7 (Cm)
1. He Will Be Called Wonderful Counselor – 9:6 (Cn)
2. He Will Reign on David’s Throne – 9:7 (Co)
D. The LORD’s Anger Against Israel – 9:8 to 10:4 (Cp)
1. The LORD Has Sent a Message Against Jacob – 9:8-12 (Cq)
2. The LORD Will Cut Off the Head and the Tail – 9:13-17 (Cr)
3. Manasseh Will Feed on Ephriam – 9:18-21 (Ct)
4. Woe to Those Who Make Unjust Laws – 10:1-4 (Ct)
E. The Judgment of Assyria – 10:5-34 (Cu)
1. Woe to Assyria, the Rod of My Anger – 10:5-11 (Cv)
2. The Light of Isra’el Will Become a Fire – 10:12-19 (Cw)
3. The Remnant Will Rely on the Holy One of Isra’el – 10:20-27 (Cx)
4. Lebanon Will Fall Before the Mighty One – 10:28-34 (Cy)
F. The Reign of Immanuel – 11:1 to 12:6 (Cz)
1. The Dispensation of God (Da)
2. The Nine Missing Articles in Messiah’s Coming Temple – 11:1-10 (Db)
3. A Shoot Will Come Up from the Stump of Jesse – 11:1-5 (Dc)
4. The Wolf Will Live with the Lamb – 11:6-10 (Dd)
5. God is My Salvation, I Will Trust and Not Be Afraid – 11:11 to 12:6 (De)
VI. The Oracles Against the Nations – 13:1 to 23:18 (Df)
A. An Oracle Concerning Babylon – 13:1 to 14:23 (Dg)
1. The Fall of the City of Babylon – 13:1-22 (Dh)
a. I Have Commanded My Holy Ones – 13:1-5 (Dh)
b. Wail, for the Day of the Lord is Near – 13:6-16 (Dj)
c. Babylon, the Jewel of Kingdoms, will be Overthrown – 13:17-22 (Dk)
2. The LORD will have Compassion on Jacob – 14:1-3 (Dl)
3. The Fall of the King of Babylon – 14:4-23 (Dm)
a. The LORD Has Broken the Rod of the Wicked – 14:4-8 (Dn)
b. All Your Pomp Has Been Brought Down to the Grave – 14:9-11 (Do)
c. How You Have Fallen from Heaven, O Morning Star – 14:12-15 (Dp)
d. Those Who See You Stare and Ponder Your Fate – 14:16-20a (Dq)
e. I Will Cut Off from Babylon Her Name – 14:20b-23 (Dr)
B. The Oracle Concerning Assyria – 14:24-27 (Ds)
C. The Oracle Concerning Philistia – 14:28-32 (Dt)
D. The Oracle Concerning Mo’ab – 15:1 to 16:14 (Du)
1. Mo’ab is Destroyed in a Single Night – 16:1-6 (Dw)
2. The Hope of Mo’ab’s Salvation – 16:1-6 (Dw)
3. My Heart Laments for Mo’ab Like a Harp – 16:7-14 (Dx)
E. The Oracle Concerning Damascus and Samaria – 17:1-14 (Dy)
1. In that Day the Glory of Jacob Will Fade – 17:1-8 (Dz)
2. In that Day Their Strong Cities Will Be Abandoned – 17:9-14 (Ea)
F. The Oracle Concerning Ethiopia – 18:1-7 (Eb)
G. The Oracle Concerning Egypt – 19:1-25 (Ec)
1. I Will Stir Up Egyptian Against Egyptian – 19:1-10 (Ed)
2. The Wise Counselors of Pharaoh Give Senseless Advice – 19:11-15 (Ee)
3. The LORD Will Make Himself Known to the Egyptians – 19:16-22 (Ef)
4. Blessed Be Egypt, Assyria and Israel – 19:23-25 (Eg)
H. The Oracle Concerning Egypt and Ethiopia – 20:1-6 (Eh)
I. The Oracle Concerning Babylon – 21:1-10 (Ei)
J. The Oracle Concerning Edom (Duma) – 21:11-12 (Ej)
K. The Oracle Concerning Arabia – 21:13-17 (Ek)
L. An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem – 22:1-25 (El)
1. A Day of Terror in the Vally of Vision – 22:1-14 (Em)
2. Shebna: the Unfaithful Steward – 22:15-19 (En)
3. Eliakim: the Faithful Steward – 22:20-25 (Eo)
M. The Oracle Concerning Tyre – 23:1-18 (Ep)
1. Timeline for Tyre (Eq)
2. Wail, You Ships of Tarshish; Your Fortress is Destroyed – 23:1-14 (Er)
3. Her Earnings Will Be Set Apart for the LORD – 23:15-18 (Es)
VII. The Little Apocalypse of Isaiah – 24:1 to 27:13 (Et)
A. The Rapture and the Great Tribulation – 24:1-23 (Eu)
1. A Curse Consumes the Earth – 24:1-13 (Ev)
2. From the Ends of the Earth We Hear Singing – 24:14-16a (Ew)
3. Terror and Pit and Snare Await You, O People – 24:16b-20 (Ex)
4. They Will Be Herded Together Like Prisoners – 24:21-23 (Ey)
B. The Song of Praise – 25:1-12 (Ez)
1. You Have Been a Refuge for the Poor and the Needy – 25:1-5 (Fa)
2. The LORD Will Provide a Feast of Rich Food for All Peoples – 25:6-8 (Fb)
3. Surely This is Our God; We Trusted in Him – 25:9-12 (Fc)
4. Surely This is Our God; We Trust in Him – 25:9-12 (Fc)
C. The Song of Salvation in the Land of Judah – 26:1-19 (Fd)
1. We Have a Strong City; God Makes Salvation It’s Walls – 26:1-6 (Fe)
2. LORD, You Establish Peace for Us – 26:7-18 (Ff)
3. You Who Dwell in the Dust Will Wake Up and Shout for Joy – 26:19 (Fg)
D. The Restoration of Isra’el – 26:20 to 27:13 (Fh)
1. Go, My People, Enter Your Rooms and Shut the Doors – 26:20 to 27:1 (Fi)
2. In Days to Come Jacob Will Take Root – 27:2-13 (Fj)
VIII. The Book of Woes – 28:1 to 35:10 (Fk)
A. The Distress of Ariel – 28:1 to 29:24 (Fl)
1. With Foreign Lips and Strange Tongues God Will Speak – 28:1-13 (Fm)
2. Your Covenant of Death Will Be Annulled – 28:14-29 (Fn)
3. Woe to You, Ariel, the City Where David Settled – 29:1-8 (Fo)
4. Woe to Those Who Go to Great Depths to Hide – 29:9-16 (Fp)
5. In That Day the Deaf Will Hear the Words of the Scroll – 29:17-24 (Fq)
B. Warning Against Alliance with Egypt – 30:1 to 31:9 (Fr)
1. Woe to the Obstinate Children, Declares the LORD – 30:1-7 (Fs)
2. These are Deceitful Children Unwilling to Listen to the LORD – 30:8-17 (Ft)
3. The People of Zion Will Weep No More – 30:18-26 (Fu)
4. The Voice of the LORD Will Shatter Assyria – 30:27-33 (Fv)
5. Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt for Help – 31:1-9 (Fw)
C. The Reign of a Righteous King – 32:1-20 (Fx)
1. See, a King will Reign in Righteousness – 32:1-8 (Fy)
2. You Women Who Are So Complacent – 32:9-14 (Fz)
3. Till the Spirit is Poured upon Us from on High – 32:15-20 (Ga)
D. The Proper Place of Security – 33:1-24 (Gb)
1. Woe to You Who Have Not Been Destroyed – 33:1-6 (Gc)
2. Look, Their Brave Men Cry Aloud in the Streets – 33:7-16 (Gd)
3. Your Eyes Will See the King in His Beauty – 33:17;24 (Ge)
E. The LORD’s Judgment Against All the Nations – 34:1-17 (Gf)
1. The LORD is Angry With All the Nations – 34:1-4 (Gg)
2. The Sword of the LORD is Bathed in Blood – 34:5-8 (Gh)
3. Edom’s Streams Will Be Turned into Pitch – 34:9-17 (Gi)
F. The Restoration of Isra’el – 35:1-10 (Gj)
1. The Desert and the Parched Land Will Be Glad – 35:1-4 (Gk)
2. The Three Messianic Miracles – 35:5-7 (Gl)
3. The Highway of Holiness Will Be There – 35:8-10 (Gm)
IX. The Historical Interlude Concerning the Crisis of the Fourteenth Year of King Hezekiah 36:1 to 39:8 (Gn)
A. Hezekiah and the Assyrians – 36:1 to 37:38 (Go)
1. The Timeline of Sennacherib’s Invasion of Judah (Gp)
2. In the Fourteenth Year of Hezekiah’s Reign – 36:1 (Gq)
3. Please Speak to Your Servants in Aramaic – 36:2-12 (Gr)
4. Do Not Let Hezekiah Deceive You – 36:13-22 (Gs)
5. Hezekiah Sent Eliakim and Shebna to the prophet Isaiah – 37:1-13 (Gt)
6. Hezekiah Spread the Letter Before the LORD – 37:14-20 (Gu)
7. I Will Save This City for My Sake and for the Sake of David My Servant – 37:21-35 (Gv)
8. Then the Angel of the LORD Put to Death a Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand Men in the Assyrian Camp – 37:36-38 (Gw)
B. Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery – 38:1-22 (Gx)
1. Hezekiah Became Ill and Was at the Point of Death -38:1-8 (Gy)
2. You Have Put All My Sins Behind Your Back – 38:9-22 (Gz)
C. The King of Babylon Sent Hezekiah a Gift – 39:1-8 (Ha)
X. The Redemption and Restoration of Isra’el – 40:1 to 66:24 (Hb)
A. Comfort, Comfort My People Says Your God – 40:1-11 (Hc)
B. That Her Hard Service Had Been Completed – 40:12 to 48:22 (Hd)
1. The God of Hope – 40:12-31 (He)
a. Surely the Nations Are Like a Drop in the Bucket – 40:12-17 (Hf)
b. He Sits Enthroned Above the Circle of the Earth – 40:18-26 (Hg)
C. But Those Who Hope in God Will Renew Strength – 40:27-31 (Hh)
2. Idolatry on Trial – 41:1-29 (Hi)
a. Who Has Stirred Up the One from the East? – 41:1-7 (Hj)
b. The Helper of Isra’el – 41:8-20 (Hk)
1) The Cone of Isaiah – 41:8-10 (Hl)
2) I am God, Who Takes Hold of Your Right Hand – 41:11-20 (Hm)
c. Present Your Case says the LORD – 41:21-29 (Hn)
3. The Servant of God the Father – 42:1-25 (Ho)
a. Here Is My Servant, Whom I Uphold – 42:1-9 (Hp)
b. Sing to the LORD a New Song – 42:10-17 (Hq)
c. Hear, You Deaf; Look, You Blind, and See – 42:18-25 (Hr)
4. The Coming Deliverance from Babylon – 43:1 to 44:5 (Hs)
a. I Have Created You, O Jacob: Fear Not – 43:1-7 (Ht)
b. I Am the LORD, Your Holy One, Isra’el’s Creator – 43:8-21 (Hu)
c. I Blot Out Your Sins for My Own Sake – 43:22-28 (Hv)
d. For I Will Pour Out My Spirit on Your Offspring – 44:1-5 (Hw)
5. All Who Make Idols are Nothing – 44:6-23 (Hx)
a. Worship the LORD, Not Idols – 44:6-20 (Hy)
b. I Have Swept Away Your Sins Like the Morning Mist – 44:21-23 (Hz)
6. The Deliverance by Cyrus the Great – 44:24 to 45:25 (Ia)
a. Cyrus is My Shepherd and Will Accomplish All – 44:24-28 (Ib)
b. This is What the LORD says to Cyrus His Anointed – 45:1-8 (Ic)
c. I Will Rise Up Cyrus in My Righteousness – 45:9-17 (Ie)
7. The Judgment of Babylon and Her Idols – 46:1 to 47:15 (If)
a. Bel Bows Down, Nebo Stoops Low – 46:1-13 (Ig)
b. Go Down, in the Dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon – 47:1-15 (Ih)
8. How Can We Know When a Message God Has Not Spoken – 48:1-22 (Ii)
a. I Foretold the Former Things Long Ago – 48:1-11 (In)
b. Listen to Me, O Jacob, Isra’el Whom I Have Called – 48:12-22 (Ik)
C. That Her Sin Had Been Pardoned – 49:1 to 57:21 (Il)
1. The Mission of the Servant of the LORD – 49:1-26 (Im)
a. He Made My Mouth like a Sharpened Sword – 49:1-13 (In)
b. Zion Consoled – 49:14-21 (Io)
1) Zion not Rejected – 49:14-21 (Ip)
2) The Gentiles and the Return of Isra’el – 49:22-26 (Iq)
2. Because the LORD Helps Me, I Will Set My Face Like a Flint – 50:1-11 (Ir)
3. Everlasting Salvation for Zion – 51:1 to 52:1-8 (Is)
a. Look to the Rock from which You Were Cut – 51:1-8 (It)
b. Awake, Awake! Clothe Yourself with Strength – 51:9-16 (Iu)
c. Awake, Awake! Rise Up, O Jerusalem – 51:17-23 (Iv)
d. My People Will Know My Name – 52:1-6 (Iw)
e. ADONAI Will Lay Bare His Holy Name – 52:7-12 (Ix)
4. The Death of the Suffering Servant – 52:13 to 53:12 (Iy)
a. See, My Servant Will Act Wisely – 52:13-15 (Iz)
b. Who Has Believed Our Message? – 52:1-3 (Ja)
c. Yet We Considered Him Punished and Stricken by God – 53:4-6 (Jb)
d. He was Oppressed Yet He Did Not Open His Mouth – 53:7-9 (Jc)
e. Yet It Was the LORD’s Will to Crush Him – 53:10-12 (Jd)
5. The Restoration of the Wife of the LORD – 54:1-17 (Je)
a. For Your Maker is Your Husband – 54:1-8 (Jf)
b. In Righteousness You Will Be Established – 54:9-17 (Jg)
6. The Offer of Salvation to the Gentile Nations – 55:1 to 56:8 (Jh)
a. My Word That Goes Out Will Not Return Empty – 55:1-13 (Ji)
b. My House Will be Called a House of Prayer — 56:1-8 (Jj)
7. Rebuke for the Wicked Promises to the Faithful – 56:9 to 58:14 (Jk)
a. Isra’el’s Watchman Are Blind and Lack Knowledge – 56:9 to 57:2 (Jl)
b. You Have Made Your Bed on Every Hill – 57:3-13 (Jm)
c. I Live in a High and Holy Place – 57:14-21 (Jn)
D. That She Had Received from the Lord Double for All Her Sin – 58:1 to 66:24 (Jo)
1. Isra’el’s National Wickedness – 58:1 to 59:21 (Jp)
a. True Fasting – 58:1-14 (Jq)
b. We Acknowledge Turning Our Backs on God – 59:1-15a (Jr)
c. He Will Repay Wrath to His Enemies 59:15b-21 (Js)
2. Isra’el in the Messianic Kingdom – 60:1-22 (Jt)
a. The Glory of the LORD Rises Upon You – 60:1-3 (Ju)
b. The Attraction of the Gentiles – 60:4-9 (Jv)
c. Foreigners Will Rebuild Your Walls and Serve You – 60:10-14 (Jw)
3. The Year of the LORD’s Favor and the Day of Vengeance – 61:1-11 (Jy)
a. The Spirit of the LORD is Upon Me – 61:1-2a (Jz)
b. And the Day of Vengeance of Our God – 61:2b-3 (Ka)
c. They are a People the LORD Has Blessed – 61:4-11 (Kb)
4. The Redemption of Jerusalem and Isra’el – 62:1 to 63:6 (Kc)
a. You Will be a Crown of Splendor in the LORD’s Hand – 62:1-5 (Kd)
b. I Have Posted Watchmen on Your Walls, O Jerusalem – 62:6-9 (Ke)
c. You Will be Called Sought After, the City Not Deserted – 62:10-12 (Kf)
d. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ to Bozrah – 63:1-6 (Kg)
e. The Eight Stage Campaign of Armageddon (Kh)
5. Isra’el’s National Confession of Sin – 63:7 to 64:12 (Ki)
a. In All Their Distresses He Too Was Distressed – 63:7-14 (Kj)
b. Return for the Sake of Your Servants – 63:15-19 (Kk)
c. Come Down to Make Your Name Known to Your Enemies – 64:1-4 (Kl)
d. All Our Righteous Acts Are Like Filthy Rages – 64:5-12 (Km)
6. God’s Plan for Isra’el – 65:1-25 (Kn)
a. Keep Your Distance, I am Holier Than You – 65:1-7 (Ko)
b. My Chosen People Will Inherit My Mountains – 65:8-16 (Kp)
c. The Wolf and the Lamb Will Eat Together – 65:17-25 (Kq)
7. The Rebirth of Isra’el – 66:1-24 (Kr)
a. The Rejection of the Tribulation Temple – 66:1-4 (Ks)
b. Hear the Word of God, You Who Tremble at His Word – 66:5-6 (Kt)
c. Do I Bring the Moment of Birth and Not Give Delivery – 66:7-9 (Ku)
d. I Will Extend Peace to Her Like a River – 66:10-14 (Kv)
e. See, the LORD is Coming with Fire, Like a Whirlwind – 66:15-17 (Kx)
f. Those Who Survive Will Proclaim My Glory – 66:18-21 (Kx)
g. All Mankind Will Bow Down Before Me – 66:22-24 (Ky)
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