Isaiah 40-44

• Is this section prophesising the coming of Christafter much punishment of Jerusalem?
• "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God (40:3),
• Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!" (v9)
• Shepherd (v11)
• but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (v31)

• God protects (40:13-15)
• God provides (v17) - is this still prophesising Jesus providing the "living water"?

• He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; (42:2) Is this the reason why Jesus tells people not to make huge noise after performing miracles?
• Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! (v18) Listen if you have ears
• God says there will be many who will be stubborn (v20)

You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
11 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
12 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and I am God.
13 Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?"

-- Isaiah 43:10-13

• I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. (v25)