03-Exposition of the Passage

Here we have the words of the prophet Isaiah. But, of course, and of far greater importance, they are the words of God himself.
Isaiah was not a popular preacher or prophet. Far from it! The fact is, in a time of national distress, not only was he a strident, discordant nuisance, preaching and prophesying directly against popular thinking in Judah, but he was, in the eyes of many, verging on treachery and undermining the people‟s resolve in a time of pending war.