Isaiah Romans

Isaiah 52:7-53:12 and the epistle of Romans.

7.1How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him 7.21 who brings good news of peace; 7.32 who publishes good news of good things, 7.43 and who declares salvation; Q Romans 10:15 7.5 who says to Zion, 7.6Your God reigns. 8.1Your watchmen will lift up their voices; 8.2with the voice together they will sing; 8.3for they will see eye to eye, 8.4when the Master returns to Zion. 9.1Break forth into joy, sing together, 9.2you waste places of Jerusalem; 9.3for the Master has comforted his people, 9.4he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10.1The Master has made bare his holy arm 10.2in the eyes of all the peoples, 10.3and all the ends of the land will see 10.4the salvation of our God. Isaiah 52:7-1011.1Depart, depart, go out from there, 11.2touch no unclean thing, P 2 Corinthians 6:17 S Lamentations 4:15 11.3go out of the middle of her and purge yourselves, 11.4you who bear the vessels of the Master, 12.1for you will not go out with haste, 12.2nor go by flight, 12.3for the Master will go before you 12.4and the God of Israel will gather you together. Isaiah 52:11-12 13.1My servant will understand, 13.2he will be exalted and extolled and be very high. 14.1Many were amazed at him, 14.2for his appearance was marred more than that of any man, 14.3and his form more than that of the children of men, 15.1so he will purify many peoples, 15.2and kings will shut their mouths because of him, 15.3for what had not been told them, they will see, 15.4and what they had not heard, they will understand. Q Romans 15:21 Isaiah 52:13-15 1.1Who has believed our report? 1.2To whom is the arm of the Master revealed? Q John 12:38 Q Romans 10:16 2.1For he grew up before him like an infant 2.2and like a root out of the dry ground; 2.3he had no form nor comeliness; 2.4and when we saw that he had no beauty, we denied him. 3.1He is despised and humbled of men; 3.2a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; 3.3and we turned our faces away from him; 3.4we despised him and we did not esteem him. Isaiah 53:1-34.1Surely he has borne our sorrows 4.2and carried our griefs; Q Matthew 8:17 4.3but we considered him struck, 4.4struck of God, and afflicted. 5.1But he was killed for our sins, 5.2he was afflicted for our iniquities; 5.3the chastisement of our peace was on him, 5.4and with his wounds we are healed. 6.1We all have strayed like sheep; Q 1 Peter 2:24-25 6.2we have turned each to his own way; 6.3and the Master has laid on him 6.4the sins of us all. Isaiah 53:4-67.1He drew near and was afflicted, 7.2yet he did not open his mouth; 7.3he was led as a lamb to the slaughter; 7.4and as an ewe before her shearers is mute 7.5so he did not open his mouth. 8.1He was taken from prison and from judgment 8.2and who can describe his anguish, 8.3for he was cut off out of the land of the living Q Acts 8:32-33 8.4and some of the evil men of my people struck him. 9.1He made his grave with the wicked 9.2and with the rich in his death, 9.3although he had done no iniquity 9.4nor was there any deceit in his mouth. Q 1 Peter 2:22 Isaiah 53:7-9 10.1Yet it pleased the Master to afflict him; 10.2he has put him to grief; 10.3he laid down his life as an offering for sin, 10.4that his seed may see, and his days be prolonged, 10.5and the pleasure of the Master prosper in his hand. 11.1He will see the reward of the travail of his soul, 11.2and be satisfied with the knowledge; 11.3he will justify the righteous; 11.4for he is a servant of many, 11.5and he will bear their sins. 12.1Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great 12.2and he will divide the spoil with the strong 12.3because he has poured out his life to death 12.4and he was numbered with the transgressors Q Mark 15:28 Q Luke 22:37 12.5and he bore the sins of many 12.6and died the death of transgressors. Isaiah 53:10-12
(Isaiah 52:7-53:12 BRB)

Isaiah asks how beautiful are the feet and who has believed our report. This matches Romans quoting those same verses.

1|4 14How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed, 2|4 or how can they believe in him whom they have never heard, 3|4 or how can they hear without a preacher, 4|4 15or how can they preach if they are not sent forth? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of a messenger of peace and a messenger of good, Q Isaiah 52:7 Romans 10:14-1516but not all have obeyed the message of the gospel, for Isaiah said, My master, who has believed the echoes of our voice? Q Isaiah 53:1 17Therefore, belief comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, Romans 10:16-21
(Romans 10:14-17 BRB)

Isaiah asks to whom is the arm of Yahvah revealed? This matches Romans talking about Yahvah holding out his arms.

18.1but, I say, have they not heard? 18.2The echoes of their voices have gone out over all the land 18.3and their words to the ends of the world, Q Psalms 19:4 19.1but, I say, did Israel not know? First, Moses spoke: 19.2I will provoke you to jealousy by a people who are not my people 19.3and I will make you angry by a stubborn people, Q Deuteronomy 32:21 20.1but, Isaiah dared to say: 20.2I appeared to those who did not seek me 20.3and was found by those who did not ask for me, Q Isaiah 65:1 21.1but to Israel he said: 21.2All the day long I have stretched out my hands 21.3to a quarrelsome and disobedient people. Q Isaiah 65:2-3
(Romans 10:18-21 BRB)

Isaiah talks about the root that grew up before Yahvah. This matches Paul's discussion of the holy root.

13It is to you peoples that I speak, inasmuch as I am the apostle to the peoples, and perhaps magnify my ministry, 14but if I am able to make those who are my flesh zealous, I may give life to some of them. 15If their rejection has resulted in reconciliation of the world, how much more, therefore, their restoration, but life from the house of the dead, 16for if the firstfruits are holy, also the lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. Romans 11:13-1617If some of the branches were cut off, and you who are a branch of a wild olive tree have been grafted in their place, and you have become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18do not boast over the branches, for if you boast, it is not you who sustains the root, but the root sustains you. 19Perhaps you may say, The branches were cut off that I might be grafted in their place. 20Well, they were cut off because of their unbelief, but you exist by belief. Do not be highminded, but have reverence, 21for if God did not spare the natural branches it may well be he will not spare you. Romans 11:17-2122Therefore, consider the goodness and severity of God. On those who fell severity, but on you goodness if you continue in his goodness. Otherwise you will also be cut off. 23Even they if they do not stay in their unbelief will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again, 24for if you who have been cut from the wild olive tree, which is natural to you, and grafted contrary to your nature to become a good olive tree; how much more fruitful would they be, if they were grafted into their natural olive tree? Romans 11:22-24
(Romans 11:13-24 BRB)
Ryan Eaton 2008-09-25 2013-07-09