Page 38 - Isaiah Student Worktext

V. 5 Isaiah, who is God’s messenger, has compassion for Moab, the enemy of Israel. His heart cries out
for them here and Chapter 16 speaks of his tears for Moab. This foreshadows Luke 19: 41-44 which
tells of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. The ‘3-year-old heifer’ may be a mistranslation of the name of an
unknown city.

When Lot and his daughters fled Sodom and Gomorrah, he pleaded with God to send them to a refuge
city, which was Zoar. Whether Moab actually fled to Zoar or Zoar is just symbolic of a place a refuge is
unclear. Either way, they are given refuge.

V. 6-9 give greater detail of the destruction. Waters are dried up, grass withers to where there is
nothing green. What water there is, is full of blood.

5.4 Let’s Practice…

Questions from Chapter 11
1. Why is it impossible for human governments to make good on their promises? Why are
Christ’s promises different and better than theirs?

2. What is the significance of the image of a shoot coming up from the stump of Jesse?

3. When will the promises found in verses 6-9 be fulfilled? ( And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the
6
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
7
them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the
8
9
ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover
the sea.)

Questions from Chapter 12
4. How does this chapter point to our heavenly future worshiping God with people from all over the
earth?

5. How does V. 3 point to Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well?

Questions from Chapter 13
6. In this chapter, God predicts the fall of almost two centuries before it happened.

37