Day 35

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Isaiah Outline

I. Judgment (1:1–35:10)

A. Prophecies Concerning Judah and Jerusalem (1:1–12:6)

1. Judah’s social sins (1:1–6:13)

2. Judah’s political entanglements (7:1–12:6)

B. Oracles of Judgment and Salvation (13:1–23:18)

1. Babylon and Assyria (13:1–14:27)

2. Philistia (14:28–32)

3. Moab (15:1–16:14)

4. Syria and Israel (17:1–14)

5. Ethiopia (18:1–7)

6. Egypt (19:1–20:6)

7. Babylon continued (21:1–10)

8. Edom (21:11, 12)

9. Arabia (21:13–17)

10. Jerusalem (22:1–25)

11. Tyre (23:1–18)

C. Redemption of Israel through World Judgment (24:1–27:13)

1. God’s devastation of the earth (24:1–23)

2. First song of thanksgiving for redemption (25:1–12)

3. Second song of thanksgiving for redemption (26:1–19)

4. Israel’s chastisements and final prosperity (26:20–27:13)

D. Warnings against Alliance with Egypt (28:1–35:10)

1. Woe to drunken politicians (28:1–29)

2. Woe to religious formalists (29:1–14)

3. Woe to those who hide plans from God (29:15–24)

4. Woe to the pro-Egyptian party (30:1–33)

5. Woe to those who trust in horses and chariots (31:1–32:20)

6. Woe to the Assyrian destroyer (33:1–24)

7. A cry for justice against the nations, particularly Edom (34:1–35:10)

II. Historical Interlude (36:1–39:8)

A. Sennacherib’s Attempt to Capture Jerusalem (36:1–37:38)

B. Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery (38:1–22)

C. Babylonian Emissaries to Jerusalem (39:1–8)

III. Salvation (40:1–66:24)

A. Deliverance from Captivity (40:1–48:22)

1. Comfort to the Babylonian exiles (40:1–31)

2. The end of Israel’s misery (41:1–48:22)

B. Sufferings of the Servant of the Lord (49:1–57:21)

1. The Servant’s mission (49:1–52:12)

2. Redemption by the Suffering Servant (52:13–53:12)

3. Results of the Suffering Servant’s redemption (54:1–57:21)

C. Future Glory of God’s People (58:1–66:24)

1. Two kinds of religion (58:1–14)

2. Plea to Israel to forsake their sins (59:1–19)

3. Future blessedness of Zion (59:20–61:11)

4. Nearing of Zion’s deliverance (62:1–63:6)

5. Prayer for national deliverance (63:7–64:12)

6. The Lord‘s answer to Israel’s supplication (65:1–66:24)

 MacArthur, John. The MacArthur Bible Handbook. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2003. Print.