Chapter 1 - The prophet complains of the sins of Juda and Jerusalem, and exhorts them to a sincere conversion.
Chapter 2 - All nations shall flow to the church of Christ. The Jews shall be rejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed.
Chapter 3 - The confusion and other evils that shall come upon the Jews for their sins. The pride of their women shall be punished.
Chapter 4 - After an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the Jews, a remnant shall be comforted by Christ.
Chapter 5 - The reprobation of the Jews is foreshewn under the parable of a vineyard. A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall send against them.
Chapter 6 - A glorious vision, in which the prophet's lips are cleansed: he foretelleth the obstinacy of the Jews.
Chapter 7 - The prophet assures king Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not take Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
Chapter 8 - The name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the Jews for their sins.
Chapter 9 - What joy shall come after afflictions by the birth and kingdom of Christ; which shall flourish for ever. Judgments upon Israel for their sins.
Chapter 10 - Woe to the makers of wicked laws. The Assyrian shall be a rod for punishing Israel: but for their pride they shall be destroyed: and a remnant of Israel saved.
Chapter 11 - Of the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair.
Chapter 12 - A canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.
Chapter 13 - The desolation of Babylon.
Chapter 14 - The restoration of Israel after their captivity. The parable or song insulting over the king of Babylon. A prophecy against the Philistines.
Chapter 15 - A prophecy of the desolation of the Moabites.
Chapter 16 - The prophet prayeth for Christ's coming. The affliction of the Moabites for their pride.
Chapter 17 - Judgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians.
Chapter 18 - A woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain hopes, their future conversion.
Chapter 19 - The punishment of Egypt: their call to the church.
Chapter 20 - The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.
Chapter 21 - The destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy against the Edomites and the Arabians.
Chapter 22 - The prophet laments the devastation of Juda. He foretells the deprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of Christ.
Chapter 23 - The destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy years.
Chapter 24 - The judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall joyfully praise him.
Chapter 25 - A canticle of thanksgiving for God's judgments and benefits.
Chapter 26 - A canticle of thanks for the deliverance of God's people.
Chapter 27 - The punishment of the oppressors of God's people. The Lord's favour to his church.
Chapter 28 - The punishment of the Israelites, for their pride, intemperance, and contempt of religion. Christ the cornerstone.
Chapter 29 - God's heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their obstinacy: with a prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles.
Chapter 30 - The people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt. God's mercies towards his church. The punishment of sinners.
Chapter 31 - The folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for his people against the Assyrians.
Chapter 32 - The blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and prosperity of the church of Christ.
Chapter 33 - God's revenge against the enemies of his church. The happiness of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Chapter 34 - The general judgment of the wicked.
Chapter 35 - The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom: in his church shall be a holy and secure way.
Chapter 36 - Sennacherib invades Juda: his blasphemies.
Chapter 37 - Ezechias, his mourning and prayer. God's promise of protection. The Assyrian army is destroyed. Sennacherib is slain.
Chapter 38 - Ezechias being advertised that he shall die, obtains by prayer a prolongation of his life: in confirmation of which the sun goes back. The canticle of Ezechias.
Chapter 39 - Ezechias shews all his treasures to the ambassadors of Babylon: upon which Isaias foretells the Babylonish captivity.
Chapter 40 - The prophet comforts the people with the promise of the coming of Christ to forgive their sins. God's almighty power and majesty.
Chapter 41 - The reign of the just one: the vanity of idols.
Chapter 42 - The office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. The blindness and reprobation of the Jews.
Chapter 43 - God comforts his church, promising to protect her for ever: he expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude.
Chapter 44 - God's favour to his church. The folly of idolatry. The people shall be delivered from captivity.
Chapter 45 - A prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great deliverer of God's people.
Chapter 46 - The idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation is promised through Christ.
Chapter 47 - God's judgment upon Babylon.
Chapter 48 - He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of their captivity, for his own name's sake.
Chapter 49 - Christ shall bring the Gentiles to salvation. God's love to his church is perpetual.
Chapter 50 - The synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. Christ for her sake will endure ignominious afflictions.
Chapter 51 - An exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect the children of his church.
Chapter 52 - Under the figure of the deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, the church is invited to rejoice for her redemption from sin. Christ's kingdom shall be exalted.
Chapter 53 - A prophecy of the passion of Christ.
Chapter 54 - The Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multiply in the church of Christ: from which God's mercy shall never depart.
Chapter 55 - God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall believe in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him.
Chapter 56 - God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.
Chapter 57 - The infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble penitents.
Chapter 58 - God rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews: recommends works of mercy, and sincere godliness.
Chapter 59 - The dreadful evil of sin is displayed, as the great obstacle to all good from God: yet he will send a Redeemer, and make an everlasting covenant with his church.
Chapter 60 - The light of true faith shall shine forth in the church of Christ, and shall be spread through all nations, and continue for all ages.
Chapter 61 - The office of Christ: the mission of the Apostles; the happiness of their converts.
Chapter 62 - The prophet will not cease from preaching Christ: to whom all nations shall be converted: and whose church shall continue for ever.
Chapter 63 - Christ's victory over his enemies: his mercies to his people: their complaint.
Chapter 64 - The prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission of their sins.
Chapter 65 - The Gentiles shall seek and find Christ, but the Jews will persecute him, and be rejected, only a remnant shall be reserved. The church shall multiply, and abound with graces.
Chapter 66 - More of the reprobation of the Jews, and of the call of the Gentiles.
Haydock Commentary notes for The Prophecy of Isaias
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