Isaiah 24-27 Outline, Flow of Thought, and Key Ideas

• Isaiah 24: God’s judgment of the earth land
  

• 24:1-13 utter desolation and destruction, leading to emptiness
  
• 24:14-16 praise and glory contrasted with woe
• 24:17-23 continuing description of the judgment that none can escape
  

• Isaiah 25: praise response for God’s justice and salvation

• 25:1-5 individual thanks for judgment against unjust and for needy
  
• 25:5-12 communal praising and feasting "in that day"
  

• Isaiah 26-27: “In that day” is God’s salvation complete
• Isaiah 26: song of praise in response to justice

• 26:1-6 inhabitants of the strong city praise for God's care and justice
• 26:7-19 praise for God's leveling justice and gracious deliverance
• 26:20-21 respite for Judah whilst Yahweh emerges for more vengeance
  

• Isaiah 27: woe and destruction groom Israel for good things as the perfect people of God
  

• 27:1 punishment of Leviathan
• 27:2-6 tending the vineyard
• 27:7-11 Israel is exiled; their oppressors are destroyed
• 27:12-13 "in that day" no Israelite left behind

Key Idea(s): Those in relationship* with God rejoice at and abound in his final justice; those not in relationship are destroyed by it.

Updated: 2/10/09

* relationship: trusting and loving sovereign God