(00:00) In these chapters the Lord comforts and gives hope to Israel. He promises that he will never abandon us.
(03:15) King Hezekiah seeks the Lord’s advice through the prophet Isaiah as Assyria approaches Jerusalem.
(11:12) In whom do you place your trust? King Benjamin invites us to remember the greatness of God.
(15:13) Isaiah 40 can be read as a temple text. Isaiah sees the council of divine beings in heaven.
(24:00) The Lord gives encouragement to Israel, and reminds them that he has always been there through their trials.
(35:34) The four Servant Songs contained in Isaiah.
(40:04) Different interpretations of “Who is blind, but my servant?” The Joseph Smith Translation opens up other ways to read this servant song.
(44:40) The Lord proclaims his loyalty to Israel, saying “I will do a new thing.”
(50:07) Isaiah warns of idolatry and contrasts Jehovah with the Babylonian god Marduk. He emphasizes that the God of Israel carries us, but the Babylonian god must be carried.
(53:29) Isaiah prophesies of Cyrus, the king of Persia. Cyrus is portrayed as a deliverer because he allowed the Jews to go home to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple.
(56:58) How the Cyrus prophecy is understood in scholarship. A middle path for approaching “Second Isaiah.”
(1:00:19) Isaiah foretells the destruction of Babylon. Babylon leaves the throne and Zion takes her place.
(1:06:27) The prophecy of the House of Israel in the last days. Isaiah shapes his argument in “the covenant treaty formula.”
(1:08:20) The Lord tells Israel, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”
(1:12:07) The House of Jacob has come out of the waters of Judah.
(1:17:01) The Book of Mormon adds the significant phrase “the feet of those who are in the east shall be established” in 1 Nephi 21.13. Some see this as evidence of Isaiah being edited.
(1:20:30) Israel has lost her children, but her children will be gathered again.
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