Isaiah 13-27 - Concordia Commentary

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Isaiah 13-27 includes ten prophetic burdens on nations surrounding Israel and an extended prophetic discourse of universal judgment and salvation. This commentary expounds their historical context fulfillment in Jesus Christ relevance for the church and consummation at the return of Christ.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>In a variety of ways the book of Isaiah proves to be rightly called the Fifth Gospel. We hear the voice of Isaiah in chapters 13-27 of his book: his penetrating indictments of the unbridled arrogance of the nations his terrifying threats of the coming Day of Judgment from the God of hosts his encouraging promises of the coming Davidic King who will be swift to do righteousness his promises of Gentiles being drawn to worship the Holy One of Israel his exhilarating promises of all peoples singing doxology to the God of hosts and rejoicing at the end-time banquet in Zion and his radical promises of the God of Israel one day swallowing up death itself and raising the dead.  </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>About the series</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The Concordia Commentary Series: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture is written to enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater insight clarity and faithfulness to the divine intent of the Biblical text.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The series will cover all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament with an original translation and meticulous grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Aramaic or Greek of each text. The foremost interpretive lens centers on the unified proclamation of the person and work of Christ across every Scriptural book.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The Commentary fully affirms the divine inspiration inerrancy and authority of Scripture; Each passage bears witness to the confession that God has reconciled the world to Himself through the incarnation ministry death resurrection and ascension of Christ His Son.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Authors expose the rich treasury of language imagery and thematic content of the Scripture while supplementing their work with additional research in archaeology history and extrabiblical literature. Throughout God's Word emanates from authors' careful attention and inculcates the ongoing life of the Church in Word Sacrament and daily confession.</span></p><p></p>