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What follows is my assembling of a number of outlines of the book of Isaiah from a variety of sources. The point is that there are many variations between these sources. The only real commonality is that chapters 1 through 39 are pre-Babylonian exile and chapters 40-66 are post-exilic.

From Executable Outlines

• I. The Assyrian Period - Conflict And Victory (1-39)
  • A. Prophecies Concerning Judah And Jerusalem (1-12)
  • B. Prophecies Concerning The Nations (13-27)
  • C. The Source Of True Deliverance (28-35)
  • D. Historical Interlude (36-39)
• II. The Babylonian Period - Hope For Troubled Times (40-66)
  • A. The One True God Versus Idols (40-48)
  • B. Salvation Through The Suffering Servant (49-53)
  • C. The Future Glory For God’S People (54-66)

From ESV Study Bible

• a. Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” (1:1–5:30)
• b. God Redefines the Future of His People: “Your Guilt Is Taken Away” (6:1–12:6)
• c. God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City” (13:1–27:13)
• d. God’s Sovereign Word Spoken into the World: “Ah!” (28:1–35:10)
• e. Historical Transition: “In Whom Do You Now Trust?” (36:1–39:8)
• f. Encouragement for God’s Exiles: “The Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed” (40:1–55:13)
• g. How to Prepare for the Coming Glory: “Hold Fast My Covenant” (56:1–66:24)

New Bible Commentary

• 1:1-31 A situation of crisis
• 2:1-4:6 God’s Ferusalem and man’s
• 5:1-30 The bitter vintage
• 6:1-13 The prophet’s call
• 7:1-12:6 Storm and sun: Assyria and Immanuel
• 13:1-23:18 Messages for the nations
• 24:1-27:13 God’s final victory
• 28:1-31:9 The Assyrian crisis: God’s help or man’s?
• 32:1-35:10 Salvation and its dark prelude
• 36:1-39:8 The supreme test for Hezekiah
• 40:1-48:22 Night far spent in Babylon
• 49:1-55:13 The dawn on redemption
• 56:1-66:24 The glory and shame of Zion

Search the Scriptures

• 1 Introductory. God’s controversy with his people.
• 2-4 Prophecies of judgment, lying between two Messianic oracles.
• 5 The Song of the Vineyard. A series of woes. Vision of an invading army.
• 6 Isaiah’s call.
• 7:1-10:4 Events connected with the alliance of Ephraim (i.e., northern Israel) and Syria against Judah, and prophecies arising out of them, some Messianic.
• 10:5-34 Assyrian invasion of Judah, and its results: (a) for Assyria, (b) for Judah.
• 11-12 Messianic prophecies.
• 13-23 Prophecies against the nations, except 22:1–14 (Jerusalem) and 22:15–25 (Shebna and Eliakim).
• 24-27 Prophecies of the Day of the Lord, in its twofold aspect of world judgment, and deliverance for Israel.
• 28-33 Prophecies connected with a proposed alliance with Egypt. Some speak of judgment, others of deliverance and of Messiah’s coming.
• 34-35 Vengeance upon Edom, contrasted with the salvation of the redeemed of the Lord, as they return from exile.
• 36-39 Historical.
• 40-48 The glad tidings of Israel’s redemption from captivity through the agency of Cyrus. The supremacy of Jehovah over the nations and their gods. 42:1–7 The first of the ‘Servant’ passages.
• 49-57 Messages of encouragement and comfort, with rebuke of those who practise evil.
• 58-66 Rebuke of sin. Visions of Zion’s glory. Prayer for God’s intervention, and God’s answer, that the people will be sifted. The true Israel will inherit ‘the new heavens and the new earth’, and those who refuse to turn to God will be destroyed.

Thompson Chain Reference NKJV

• I. Refers chiefly to events leading up to the Captivity, 1–39
  • (1) Exhortations and warnings of Divine Judgments, mingled with predictions of better days and the coming of the Messiah, 1-12
  • (2) Prophecies respecting surrounding nations,-Assyria, Babylonia, Moab, Egypt, Philistia, Syria, Edom, and Tyre, 13-23
  • (3) Writings concerning the sins and misery of the people, promises of salvation, a song of Confidence in God, and his care over his vineyard, 24-27
  • (4) Chiefly woes pronounced upon Ephraim and Jerusalem, especially for trusting in foreign alliances, 28-31
  • (5) Promises of a Righteous King, and the outpouring of the Spirit, the exaltation of the Righteous, and the turning of the wilderness into a Garden of the Lord, 32-35
  • (6) Hezekiah’s deliverance from the Assyrians, and the lengthening of his life, 36-39
• II. The second part of the book contains predictions, warnings, and promises which refer to events beyond the Captivity, and reach on down the centuries through the Christian dispensation. This portion of the prophecy is especially rich in messianic references, 40-66.

A couple of years ago I wrote about using Search the Scriptures (StS) as a part of my daily Bible reading regimen.

Between April and June 2021 I used StS when reading the first nine chapters of Luke across 25 daily studies, and the first 26 chapters of Genesis across 19 studies.

At the time I quite appreciated the discipline of answering specific questions based on the passage. I will often make notes on passages I read but this may take the form of observations about the text, or some historical or contextual information. It may be some reflections on how I see the passage relating to or affecting me, or (rarely) a prayer that forms in response to my reading. The point is my discipline of writing in response to the passage is variable and not always intentional or focused. StS offers an alternative because if I seek to answer the two or three questions more than superficially then I need to reread parts of the passage and give some thought to the issues that the questions seek to raise.

For the last two weeks I’ve been reading Isaiah in my daily bible reading. And at my current rate of a chapter a day, I’ll still be reading Isaiah for another seven-or-so weeks.

As I’ve read I’ve been a little confused trying to follow the line of narrative or prophecy from chapter to chapter or even within chapters. My normal bible only contains paragraph headings but nothing in the way of cross references or study notes I can readily refer to.

This website is coming up to its sixth anniversary. Until how I have used the same company for both domain registration and web hosting. For the first five years the domain registration was around $23/year and the hosting was $36/year.

The company took the decision last year to remove this low-cost hosting and the price jumped to $108 for 2022/2023. I let it slide for one year to see how things would pan out for 2023/2024. My hosting was to increase to something in the order of $140. That’s simply too much for a simple site with very limited traffic.

Day 15 and the last day of photos from our trip. We left Melbourne and headed for Ballarat with a view to spending some hours there before heading off to Bendigo. Drizzly rain in Ballarat hampered our sightseeing, but we did spend some time in the famous Lydiard St and had lunch by Lake Wendouree before travelling to Bendigo and having a look around there.

Ballarat:

Day 14 was spent in Melbourne - wandering around South Yarra and the Yarra River with views of AAMI Park and the MCG.

Day 12 was rainy and grey and so the few photos taken that day aren’t worthy of broadcast.

Day 13 was spent heading south from Melbourne to Brighton then on to the Mornington Peninsula.

Brighton:

Arhtur’s Seat:

Sorrento:

Day 11 began in Port Campbell and finished in Melbourne. The highlights along the way were the Loch Ard Gorge, the Twelve Apostles, and the sheer pleasure of driving (or being a passenger) along the Great Ocean Road.

Loch Ard Gorge was named after a shipwreck in 1878. Of the 54 souls on board only two survived. I believe the ship ran agroud on the rock shelf on the far left hand side of photo eight, below.

Day 10 saw us traversing the first quarter of the Great Ocean Road to Port Campbell. We began with an early morning visit to the Umpherston Sinkhole followed by visits to the Bay of Islands, Bay of Martyrs, The Grotto and London Bridge before arriving in Port Campbell for the afternoon and evening.

Umpherston Sinkhole:

Bay of Islands:

Bay of Martyrs:

The Grotto:

Day 10 began in Mt Gambier and saw us traverse the first quarter of the Great Ocean Road to Port Campbell. In Mt Gambier we began with a walk into the Umpherston Sinkhole before stopping to view the Bay of Islands, Bay of Martyrs, The Grotto and London Bridge before arriving in Port Campbell for the afternoon/evening.