Isaiah יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied over some four decades in Jerusalem, from the year King Uzziah died through the Assyrian crisis under Hezekiah, when the angel of the LORD turned back Sennacherib's army from the walls of the city. The first half of the book (through chapter 39) is dominated by judgment — the arraignment of Judah, the vision of the seraphim, the sign of Immanuel, the child born to David's throne, the burdens against the nations, and the historical chapters of Hezekiah's deliverance and folly. From chapter 40 the tone turns to comfort: 'Comfort ye, comfort ye My people' — the incomparable Creator, the fall of Babylon and the rise of Cyrus, the Servant of the LORD who is a light to the nations and is wounded for the transgressions of many, and the final vision of a redeemed Zion, new heavens and a new earth. No prophet ranges more widely between doom and consolation, or sees the glory of God more clearly.