Isaiah #catechesis/bible/isaiah
Old Testament · Major Prophets · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Isaiah 1 — The prophet complains of the sins of Judah and Jerusalem, and exhorts them to a sincere conversion.
- Isaiah 2 — All nations shall flow to the Church of Christ. The Jews shall be rejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed.
- Isaiah 3 — The confusion and other evils that shall come upon the Jews for their sins. The pride of their women shall be punished.
- Isaiah 4 — After an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the Jews, a remnant shall be comforted by Christ.
- Isaiah 5 — The reprobation of the Jews is foreshown under the parable of a vineyard. A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall send against them.
- Isaiah 6 — A glorious vision, in which the prophet’s lips are cleansed: he foretells the obstinacy of the Jews.
- Isaiah 7 — The prophet assures King Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not take Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
- Isaiah 8 — The name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the Jews for their sins.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 11 — Of the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair.
- Isaiah 12 — A canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.
- Isaiah 13 — The desolation of Babylon.
- Isaiah 14 — The restoration of Israel after their captivity. The parable or song insulting over the king of Babylon. A prophecy against the Philistines.
- Isaiah 15 — A prophecy of the desolation of the Moabites.
- Isaiah 16 — The prophet prays for Christ’s coming. The affliction of the Moabites for their pride.
- Isaiah 17 — Judgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians.
- Isaiah 18 — A woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain hopes, their future conversion.
- Isaiah 19 — The punishment of Egypt: their call to the Church.
- Isaiah 20 — The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.
- Isaiah 21 — The destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy against the Edomites and the Arabians.
- Isaiah 22 — The prophet laments the devastation of Judah. He foretells the deprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of Christ.
- Isaiah 23 — The destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy years.
- Isaiah 24 — The judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall joyfully praise him.
- Isaiah 25 — A canticle of thanksgiving for God’s judgments and benefits.
- Isaiah 26 — A canticle of thanks for the deliverance of God’s people.
- Isaiah 27 — The punishment of the oppressors of God’s people. The Lord’s favour to his Church.
- Isaiah 28 — The punishment of the Israelites, for their pride, intemperance, and contempt of religion. Christ the cornerstone.
- Isaiah 29 — God’s heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their obstinacy: with a prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles.
- Isaiah 30 — The people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt. God’s mercies towards his Church. The punishment of sinners.
- Isaiah 31 — The folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for his people against the Assyrians.
- Isaiah 32 — The blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and prosperity of the Church of Christ.
- Isaiah 33 — God’s revenge against the enemies of his Church. The happiness of the heavenly Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 34 — The general judgment of the wicked.
- Isaiah 35 — The joyful flourishing of Christ’s kingdom: in his Church shall be a holy and secure way.
- Isaiah 36 — Sennacherib invades Judah: his blasphemies.
- Isaiah 37 — Hezekiah, his mourning and prayer. God’s promise of protection. The Assyrian army is destroyed. Sennacherib is slain.
- Isaiah 38 — Hezekiah 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 Hezekiah.
- Isaiah 39 — Hezekiah shows all his treasures to the ambassadors of Babylon: upon which Isaiah foretells the Babylonish captivity.
- Isaiah 40 — The prophet comforts the people with the promise of the coming of Christ to forgive their sins. God’s almighty power and majesty.
- Isaiah 41 — The reign of the just one: the vanity of idols.
- Isaiah 42 — The office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. The blindness and reprobation of the Jews.
- Isaiah 43 — God comforts his Church, promising to protect her for ever: he expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude.
- Isaiah 44 — God’s favour to his Church. The folly of idolatry. The people shall be delivered from captivity.
- Isaiah 45 — A prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great deliverer of God’s people.
- Isaiah 46 — The idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation is promised through Christ.
- Isaiah 47 — God’s judgment upon Babylon.
- Isaiah 48 — He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of their captivity, for his own name’s sake.
- Isaiah 49 — Christ shall bring the Gentiles to salvation. God’s love to his Church is perpetual.
- Isaiah 50 — The synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. Christ for her sake will endure ignominious afflictions.
- Isaiah 51 — An exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect the children of his Church.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 53 — A prophecy of the passion of Christ.
- Isaiah 54 — The Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multiply in the Church of Christ: from which God’s mercy shall never depart.
- Isaiah 55 — God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall believe in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him.
- Isaiah 56 — God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.
- Isaiah 57 — The infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble penitents.
- Isaiah 58 — God rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews: recommends works of mercy, and sincere godliness.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 61 — The office of Christ: the mission of the Apostles; the happiness of their converts.
- Isaiah 62 — The prophet will not cease from preaching Christ: to whom all nations shall be converted: and whose Church shall continue for ever.
- Isaiah 63 — Christ’s victory over his enemies: his mercies to his people: their complaint.
- Isaiah 64 — The prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission of their sins.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 66 — More of the reprobation of the Jews, and of the call of the Gentiles.
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