OUTLINE OF ISAIAH

By: Samuel J. Schultz

1. The message and the messanger (1:1-6:13)
   Introduction (1:1)
   Sinful nation condemned (1:2-31)
   Promise of absolute peace (2:1-5)
   The vanity of trusting idols (2:6-3:26)
   Salvation for a remnant (4:1-6)
   The parable of a vineyard (5:1-30)
   The call to service (6:1-13)

2. The kingdom prospects -- contemporary and future (7:1-12:6)
   Immediate deliverance from Rezin and Pekah (7:1-16)
   Pending Assyrian invasion (7:17-8:8)
   Promise of complete deliverance (8:9-9:7)
   Judgement of Ephraim, Syria, and Assyria (9:8-10:34)
   Conditions of peace and blessing (11:1-12:6)

3. Panorama of nations (13:1-23:18)
   Doom of Babylon and its ruler (13:1-14:27)
   Philistia's fall -- no hope for recovery (14:28-32)
   Moab punished for pride (15:1-16:14)
   Fate of syria and Israel (17:1-18:7)
   Egypt will acknowledge the Lord of Hosts (19:1-25)
   Ashdod and allies defeated by Assyria (20:1-6)
   Fall of Babylon (21:1-10)
   The distress of Edom (21:11-12)
   The fate of Arabia (21:13-17)
   Judah's pending destruction (22:1-14)
   Judgment of Shebna the steward (22:15-25)
   Tyre jdged and restored (23:1-18)

4. Israel in a world setting (24:1-27:13)
   The destruction of Jerusalem (24:1-13a)
   The righteous remnant and the wicked report
   to the Lord of Hosts in Zion (24:13b-23)
   Song of praise by the redeemed (25:1-26:6)
   Prayer of the remnant in tribulation (26:7-19)
   Assurance of deliverance and return to Mount Zion (26:20-27:13)

5. True and false hopes in Zion (28:1-35:10)
   God's plan prevails (28:1-29:24)
   Futility of an alliance with Egypt (30:1-31:9)
   Blesings for those who trust in God (32:1-33:24)
   Nations judged -- Israel restored to Zion (34:1-35:10)

6. Jerusalem's judgment delayed (36:1-39:8)
   Miraculous deliverance from Assyria (36:1-37:38)
   Hezekiah's recovery and psalm of praise (38:1-22)
   Prediction of Babylon captivity (39:1-8)

7. The promise of divinedeliverance (40:1-56:8)
   Comfort through faith in God (40:1-31)
   Israel as God's chosen servant (41:1-29)
   The ideal versus the sinful servant (42:1-25)
   Israel restored from Babylonian captivity (43:1-45:25)
   Babylon with her idols demoted (46:1-47:15)
   God's appeal to sinful Israel (48:1-50:11)
   Israel alerted in hope (51:1-52:12)
   Deliverance through a suffering servant (52:13-53:12)
   Salvation for Israel and foreigners (54:1-56:8)

8. God's universal kingdom established (56:9-66:24)
   Self-righteous living versus God's standard (56:9-59:21)
   The redeemer brings blessings to Zion (60:1-63:6)
   God discerns the genuine (63:7-65:16)
   The new heaven and the new earth (65:17-66:24)