Judgment and Glory: Reflections on the Book of Isaiah (The Daily Quiet Time Reflections Series)

"Comfort, comfort my people, says your God" (Isaiah 40:1) — but only after thirty-nine chapters of some of the most searching judgment in the Old Testament. No prophet wrote with a wider range than Isaiah, and no Old Testament book is quoted more often in the New. Across sixty-six chapters and more than sixty years of ministry, Isaiah confronts a nation whose worship had become performance, watches two kings choose two different roads through national crisis, and unveils, with startling specificity, both a pagan king who would end an exile that hadn't yet begun and a suffering Servant whose wounds would heal many.

Judgment and Glory: Reflections on the Book of Isaiah is the thirteenth volume in The Daily Quiet Time Reflections Series, continuing the same daily, one-reading-at-a-time approach used throughout — most recently in Three Songs of Wisdom: Reflections on the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. Drawn from more than a decade of daily Quiet Time writing and Sunday School teaching at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Eugene Han and Eunmi Kim walk through the whole of Isaiah across fifteen chapters, organized in two parts that follow the book's own great turn: Part One, Judgment, moving through the oracles and historical crises of Isaiah 1–35; and Part Two, Glory, moving from Hezekiah's climactic test of faith through the Servant Songs, the suffering Servant of Isaiah 53, and on to the new heavens and new earth of the book's final chapters.

This is not a technical commentary written for seminarians. It is a layman's companion for ordinary believers who want to read Isaiah slowly and be met, in equal measure, by its severity and its hope.

Each chapter includes:

• A close, readable walk through that day's passage, grounded in careful study but written for everyday readers
• Cross-references tracing how the New Testament quotes and fulfills specific passages — from Matthew's citation of Isaiah 9 to Paul's argument from Isaiah 53 in Romans
• Honest engagement with Isaiah's hardest material, including the "Lucifer" passage of chapter 14 read in its own historical context, alongside its most beloved promises of comfort and restoration
• Reflection and discussion questions, ideal for personal devotion or small-group Bible study

Whether you are reading through Isaiah for the first time, leading a Bible study, or continuing the journey begun in earlier volumes of this series, this book offers fifteen chapters of careful, faithful reflection on the prophet who spent his whole ministry proving that his own name was true: the LORD saves.