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Preaching the Word
Isaiah: God Saves Sinners
Isaiah is widely considered the deepest, richest, and most theologically significant book in the Old Testament. It is, without question, a profound statement by God about his own sovereignty and majesty spoken through his chosen spokesman, the prophet Isaiah.
In this accessible commentary on the book of Isaiah, Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. argues that Isaiah imparts a single vision of God throughout all sixty-six chapters. It is a unified, woven whole that ultimately shows that God saves sinners. He saves them from their own self-invented salvations, so that they can walk in the light of his love.
Ultimately, the message of Isaiah offers us a God-centered confidence that enables us to face anything while challenging us to trust God in new ways.
Part of the Preaching the Word series.
In this accessible commentary on the book of Isaiah, Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. argues that Isaiah imparts a single vision of God throughout all sixty-six chapters. It is a unified, woven whole that ultimately shows that God saves sinners. He saves them from their own self-invented salvations, so that they can walk in the light of his love.
Ultimately, the message of Isaiah offers us a God-centered confidence that enables us to face anything while challenging us to trust God in new ways.
Part of the Preaching the Word series.
496 pages, Hardcover
First published October 21, 2005
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About the author
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
67 books141 followersPastor Ray Ortlund received a B.A. from Wheaton College, Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, M.A. from The University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Pastor Ortlund served as Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, from 1989-1998. He was ordained by Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Pasadena, California, in 1975
In addition to a number of essays and articles, he has published several books. Ray also participated in The New Living Translation and the English Standard Version of the Bible. He contributed the introduction and study notes to the book of Isaiah in The ESV Study Bible.
Ray is the President of Renewal Ministries, a regional director in the Acts29 Network and serves on the council of The Gospel Coalition.
Ray and his wife Jani have been married for forty-one happy years, and they have four delightful children. Ray says, "I have the most wonderful wife, I love my kids and grandkids, and I love Immanuel Church. My dream is that God would use us for true revival in our city."
In addition to a number of essays and articles, he has published several books. Ray also participated in The New Living Translation and the English Standard Version of the Bible. He contributed the introduction and study notes to the book of Isaiah in The ESV Study Bible.
Ray is the President of Renewal Ministries, a regional director in the Acts29 Network and serves on the council of The Gospel Coalition.
Ray and his wife Jani have been married for forty-one happy years, and they have four delightful children. Ray says, "I have the most wonderful wife, I love my kids and grandkids, and I love Immanuel Church. My dream is that God would use us for true revival in our city."
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October 3, 2020
This was a reread. This book is deeply meaningful to me. Highly readable. Not your usual commentary. It's a book that sustained me through a major life transition, continually pointing to the reality that God alone is my salvation. Reading it again this year was a balm and an anchor. Cannot recommend it enough.
September 12, 2022
Praise Jesus who saves sinners!
“… proud, self-sufficient Israel can become the witness to the greatness of God only when she has been reduced to helplessness by his just judgment and then restored to life by his unmerited grace.”
“… proud, self-sufficient Israel can become the witness to the greatness of God only when she has been reduced to helplessness by his just judgment and then restored to life by his unmerited grace.”
June 28, 2019
It was okay and occasionally stimulated me with new insights into the text as I studied it. But overall, I just don't find it all that helpful to read sermons marketed as a commentary.
March 20, 2020
Incredible! This commentary is both pastoral and scholarly. Ortlund approaches his reader like he is sitting down with his own child. He looks you dead in the eyes and lays out all your sin and brokenness with authentic love and concern. He then offers the great comfort and glory of Christ as the only way to true happiness and revival. As a pastor, this book came as a great comfort and I am so thankful I read it. As a follower of Jesus, this book increased my delight and affections for God. I am so bummed that I finished this great work but will return to it again and again.
December 10, 2019
Amazing gospel-drenched commentary from Ortlund bringing Isaiah to life for the church. Stirring exposition worthy of the pastor’s study and Christian’s devotional collection.
February 19, 2021
Wow. Never seen God so big before.
July 19, 2017
An excellent commentary overall. I really like Ray Orland's writing style, and his heart for the gospel. I occasionally disagree with nuances of his interpretation or application, but that's to be expected in the book the size of Isaiah! Overall highly recommend it.
February 7, 2025
Read more pastoral and less like an academic commentary. Lots of sermon illustrations, poems, songs, quotes, and stories from favorite authors. It was helpful in showing the structure and outline of Isaiah, both as a whole and in each individual chapter. I am left in awe of a big God that loves his people with a tender, but relentless love.
March 25, 2021
My true rating is 3.5. I love Ortlund. His heart for God and his ability to communicate on paper are obvious. This is a very helpful commentary but it is clunky and anecdotal at times. It's steeped with traditionalistic biases that I find unhelpful; while still having some beneficial merit. This reads like a devotional commentary, and as I am reading through Isaiah only this year for Bible Reading, I found this to be a good companion for the first 3 months of 2021.
June 15, 2017
This is another great read from the Preaching The Word series.
September 10, 2021
This commentary was useful as I trudged through the book of Isaiah. It had some great insights, quotations from other sources, and nuggets of applicable wisdom that I appreciated as I journeyed through it.
I will say that I struggled to glean much academic knowledge from this commentary. It mostly just felt like each chapter was a sermon on that section of Isaiah. My issue wasn't that the content wasn't good, but I was yearning for more of an academic approach to picking apart the book. It was often lacking any semblance of attention to the translation of Hebrew words or hearkening to other books of the Bible, which I usually find very helpful.
If you are doing any sort of devotional through Isaiah, this commentary is a good companion, but if you are truly wishing to dissect the book and get to know the ins and outs of Isaiah, I would recommend other commentaries to read alongside.
I will say that I struggled to glean much academic knowledge from this commentary. It mostly just felt like each chapter was a sermon on that section of Isaiah. My issue wasn't that the content wasn't good, but I was yearning for more of an academic approach to picking apart the book. It was often lacking any semblance of attention to the translation of Hebrew words or hearkening to other books of the Bible, which I usually find very helpful.
If you are doing any sort of devotional through Isaiah, this commentary is a good companion, but if you are truly wishing to dissect the book and get to know the ins and outs of Isaiah, I would recommend other commentaries to read alongside.
November 17, 2024
Arguably the best commentary I have ever read--especially since it doesn't read like your ordinary everyday commentary. I believe this is actually a compilation of sermons that the author preached when preaching expositorily through the book of Isaiah. IMO Isaiah is to the Old Testament what Romans is to the new: doctrine. Specifically doctrine that reveals the character and attributes of God the Father as well as the character of mankind as a whole. This book is extremely readable and applicable to life in the 21st century.
Ortlund is thoughtful, readable, and has a high view of scripture. I read it as an adjunct to my daily Bible study and read a chapter a day so it took a couple of months to get through which was good because the timeless truths and teaching of Isaiah are best digested slowly.
Don't miss this one.
Ortlund is thoughtful, readable, and has a high view of scripture. I read it as an adjunct to my daily Bible study and read a chapter a day so it took a couple of months to get through which was good because the timeless truths and teaching of Isaiah are best digested slowly.
Don't miss this one.
December 27, 2017
Though not for the faint of heart, anyone who wants to understand the book of Isaiah more deeply, would benefit from this pastoral commentary. I have long been impressed by Ray Ortlund’s wisdom and apparent kindness, though his intellect certainly shines here, As well.
December 16, 2015
This is one of the best books I have ever read. Picking it up was rather providential, and I am so thankful because it spoke in so many ways to where I am at in my life. Highest recommendation.
April 2, 2024
First sentence from the preface: God saves sinners. We don’t believe that. We bank our happiness on other things. But God says to us, “I’m better than you think. You’re worse than you think. Let’s get together.” The prophet Isaiah wants to show us more of God and more of ourselves than we’ve ever seen before. He wants us to know what it means for us to be saved. Do we have the courage to listen? But God has opened a way for us to swim eternally in the ocean of his love. Our part is to look beyond ourselves and stake everything on God, who alone saves sinners.
First sentence from chapter one: We can know, because God has spoken.
This was my second time to read Raymond C. Ortlund's commentary on Isaiah. I first read it in April of 2015. I loved it just as much the second time. I read about five or six chapters a week over several weeks.
This commentary covers every chapter of Isaiah. It may not cover every verse of every chapter, but it does serve at the very least as an excellent overview of the book as a whole. And to be honest, this overview has so much depth and substance that most readers would not really feel cheated that perhaps it didn't cover every single verse and sentence. There is so much to unpack.
This commentary is a great happy medium. It is more serious perhaps than J. Vernon McGee's super conversational commentaries. But it is not dry or scholarly. It is still very much written for you and me and everyone. It is meant to be read and understood by all believers. Not just those with a string of alphabet letters behind their name.
I learned so much from each and every chapter. Here's a small taste of what to expect.
From the preface:
As a pastor, it’s not my job to protect people from the living God. My job is to bring people to God, and leave them there.
From chapter one the introduction to Isaiah:
Every day we treat God as incidental to what really matters to us, and we live by our own strategies of self-salvation. We don’t think of our choices that way, but Isaiah can see that our lives are infested with fraudulent idols. Any hope that isn’t from God is an idol of our own making... A salvation we don’t even know how to define, Isaiah is an expert at explaining to us. He wants to lead us into a life that outlasts our earthly expiration date.
J. I. Packer puts into words the greatness of the Isaianic message: God saves sinners. God — the Triune Jehovah, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; three Persons working together in sovereign wisdom, power and love to achieve the salvation of a chosen people, the Father electing, the Son fulfilling the Father’s will by redeeming, the Spirit executing the purpose of the Father and Son by renewing. Saves — does everything, first to last, that is involved in bringing man from death in sin to life in glory: plans, achieves and communicates redemption, calls and keeps, justifies, sanctifies, glorifies. Sinners — men as God finds them, guilty, vile, helpless, powerless, blind, unable to lift a finger to do God’s will or better their spiritual lot. God saves sinners. . . . Sinners do not save themselves in any sense at all, but salvation, first and last, whole and entire, past, present and future, is of the Lord, to whom be glory forever, amen!
If the world is not experiencing the grace of God, the church is being untrue to its destiny.
From chapter two: Our Urgent Need: A New Self Awareness I
We need a sense of sin. We shouldn’t fear it or resent it. It is not destructive. It is life-giving, if we have the courage to let Christ save us. We are often told — or just whispered to — that what we need is more self-esteem. That is false. What we need is more humility and more Christ-esteem.
What is conviction of sin? It is not an oppressive spirit of uncertainty or paralyzing guilt feelings. Conviction of sin is the lance of the divine Surgeon piercing the infected soul, releasing the pressure, letting the infection pour out. Conviction of sin is a health-giving injury. Conviction of sin is the Holy Spirit being kind to us by confronting us with the light we don’t want to see and the truth we’re afraid to admit and the guilt we prefer to ignore. Conviction of sin is the severe love of God overruling our compulsive dishonesty, our willful blindness, our favorite excuses. Conviction of sin is the violent sweetness of God opposing the sins lying comfortably undisturbed in our lives. Conviction of sin is the merciful God declaring war on the false peace we settle for. Conviction of sin is our escape from malaise to joy, from attending church to worship, from faking it to authenticity. Conviction of sin, with the forgiveness of Jesus pouring over our wounds, is life.
The reason we see so little repentance in the world is that the world sees so little repentance in the church.
The church survives because God saves sinners. He sees what we would become, left to ourselves, and in mercy he stretches out his hand and says, “I will not let you go.” That is why the evil inside every one of us doesn’t explode with its actual power, to our destruction (Romans 9:29). Apart from God’s preserving grace, we would relive the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. We are what they were. We deserve what they got. That’s what God says. And the only reason we’re still here is his overruling mercy saving us from ourselves.
From chapter three: Our Urgent Need: A New Self Awareness II
Rebellion against God is our problem. But God saves rebels. And true worship is rebels like us waving the white flag of surrender before our rightful Lord in repentance.
Let’s ask ourselves, what do we think is unbearably repulsive to God, to his very soul, right down to the depths of the Divine Being? We might answer, hard-core crime, the exploitation of children, terrorist mayhem —that sort of thing. It might not occur to us that what the soul of God hates and is burdened and wearied by is the worship we offer him, if we are not in repentance.
The problem with worship — it must take some form or other — is this: The more Biblical and beautiful its form becomes, the more useful it is as a mechanism for evading honest dealings with God and the more plausible as a substitute for repentance.
From chapter four: Our Urgent Need, A New Self Awareness III
What is redemption? Redemption explains how God saves us. How does he? By paying a personal price. In real life, we sin our way right into bondage, and there’s no easy way out. If we try to cover it up or make excuses, we dig ourselves in deeper. Every day we create the conditions in which we literally deserve Hell. But what does God do? He offers to get us out of trouble at his own expense. He offers to absorb within himself the consequences we have set in motion. He pays the price, so that we don’t have to, because we can’t anyway. That’s redemption. If you have sinned your way into helplessness, where you deserve to reap what you have sown, you can be redeemed. God is not only willing to pay the price, he already has — at the cross of Christ. You can enter into redemption freely, by his grace.
We add nothing to the value of Jesus’ sacrifice, but his love does claim all that we are. The flip side of God paying the price is that we are no longer our own (1 Corinthians 6:19b, 20a). What else can we do but repent? We need to repent of our sins every day. We need to repent of our fifth-rate righteousness every day. We need to receive afresh, with the empty hands of faith, real righteousness from Jesus Christ every day. The cross becomes a redeeming power for us as we learn what it means to repent.
From chapter five: The Transforming Power of Hope and Humility
We think too well of ourselves and too poorly of God to believe that his love for his glory and his love for us are one love, drawing him on to the final day when we will be forever happy with his glory alone. But how could it be otherwise? Human fulfillment is union with God.
Do you believe that there is enough glory in God to make you happy forever? If you don’t, why? What failing have you found in God? The gospel promises that his glory will remake the whole world. Stop valuing the idols you not only might lose but inevitably must lose. Learn to enjoy God. The triumph of his glory is enough to make your complete happiness forever invincible.
From chapter eight:
If your heart does not leap at God’s grace in Christ, what you need is more grace. Nothing else can save you from your own deadness. Therefore, fear your own hardness of heart more than anything else.9 Beware of rigidity, ingratitude, a demanding spirit. Beware of an unmelted heart that is never satisfied. Beware of a mind that looks for excuses not to believe. Beware of the impulse that always finds a reason to delay response. Beware of thinking how the sermon applies to someone else. God watches how you hear his Word. If you are ever again to receive it with at least the capacity for response that you have at this very moment, hear it now.
From chapter thirteen:
The heart sings when we accept how little it matters that we are in control and how much it matters that God is in control for us, when we discover how little it matters that we are able and how much it suffices that God is able on our behalf. The day we step into the messianic kingdom and find that God has been true to his word, we redeemed will erupt in music as never before.
First sentence from chapter one: We can know, because God has spoken.
This was my second time to read Raymond C. Ortlund's commentary on Isaiah. I first read it in April of 2015. I loved it just as much the second time. I read about five or six chapters a week over several weeks.
This commentary covers every chapter of Isaiah. It may not cover every verse of every chapter, but it does serve at the very least as an excellent overview of the book as a whole. And to be honest, this overview has so much depth and substance that most readers would not really feel cheated that perhaps it didn't cover every single verse and sentence. There is so much to unpack.
This commentary is a great happy medium. It is more serious perhaps than J. Vernon McGee's super conversational commentaries. But it is not dry or scholarly. It is still very much written for you and me and everyone. It is meant to be read and understood by all believers. Not just those with a string of alphabet letters behind their name.
I learned so much from each and every chapter. Here's a small taste of what to expect.
From the preface:
As a pastor, it’s not my job to protect people from the living God. My job is to bring people to God, and leave them there.
From chapter one the introduction to Isaiah:
Every day we treat God as incidental to what really matters to us, and we live by our own strategies of self-salvation. We don’t think of our choices that way, but Isaiah can see that our lives are infested with fraudulent idols. Any hope that isn’t from God is an idol of our own making... A salvation we don’t even know how to define, Isaiah is an expert at explaining to us. He wants to lead us into a life that outlasts our earthly expiration date.
J. I. Packer puts into words the greatness of the Isaianic message: God saves sinners. God — the Triune Jehovah, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; three Persons working together in sovereign wisdom, power and love to achieve the salvation of a chosen people, the Father electing, the Son fulfilling the Father’s will by redeeming, the Spirit executing the purpose of the Father and Son by renewing. Saves — does everything, first to last, that is involved in bringing man from death in sin to life in glory: plans, achieves and communicates redemption, calls and keeps, justifies, sanctifies, glorifies. Sinners — men as God finds them, guilty, vile, helpless, powerless, blind, unable to lift a finger to do God’s will or better their spiritual lot. God saves sinners. . . . Sinners do not save themselves in any sense at all, but salvation, first and last, whole and entire, past, present and future, is of the Lord, to whom be glory forever, amen!
If the world is not experiencing the grace of God, the church is being untrue to its destiny.
From chapter two: Our Urgent Need: A New Self Awareness I
We need a sense of sin. We shouldn’t fear it or resent it. It is not destructive. It is life-giving, if we have the courage to let Christ save us. We are often told — or just whispered to — that what we need is more self-esteem. That is false. What we need is more humility and more Christ-esteem.
What is conviction of sin? It is not an oppressive spirit of uncertainty or paralyzing guilt feelings. Conviction of sin is the lance of the divine Surgeon piercing the infected soul, releasing the pressure, letting the infection pour out. Conviction of sin is a health-giving injury. Conviction of sin is the Holy Spirit being kind to us by confronting us with the light we don’t want to see and the truth we’re afraid to admit and the guilt we prefer to ignore. Conviction of sin is the severe love of God overruling our compulsive dishonesty, our willful blindness, our favorite excuses. Conviction of sin is the violent sweetness of God opposing the sins lying comfortably undisturbed in our lives. Conviction of sin is the merciful God declaring war on the false peace we settle for. Conviction of sin is our escape from malaise to joy, from attending church to worship, from faking it to authenticity. Conviction of sin, with the forgiveness of Jesus pouring over our wounds, is life.
The reason we see so little repentance in the world is that the world sees so little repentance in the church.
The church survives because God saves sinners. He sees what we would become, left to ourselves, and in mercy he stretches out his hand and says, “I will not let you go.” That is why the evil inside every one of us doesn’t explode with its actual power, to our destruction (Romans 9:29). Apart from God’s preserving grace, we would relive the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. We are what they were. We deserve what they got. That’s what God says. And the only reason we’re still here is his overruling mercy saving us from ourselves.
From chapter three: Our Urgent Need: A New Self Awareness II
Rebellion against God is our problem. But God saves rebels. And true worship is rebels like us waving the white flag of surrender before our rightful Lord in repentance.
Let’s ask ourselves, what do we think is unbearably repulsive to God, to his very soul, right down to the depths of the Divine Being? We might answer, hard-core crime, the exploitation of children, terrorist mayhem —that sort of thing. It might not occur to us that what the soul of God hates and is burdened and wearied by is the worship we offer him, if we are not in repentance.
The problem with worship — it must take some form or other — is this: The more Biblical and beautiful its form becomes, the more useful it is as a mechanism for evading honest dealings with God and the more plausible as a substitute for repentance.
From chapter four: Our Urgent Need, A New Self Awareness III
What is redemption? Redemption explains how God saves us. How does he? By paying a personal price. In real life, we sin our way right into bondage, and there’s no easy way out. If we try to cover it up or make excuses, we dig ourselves in deeper. Every day we create the conditions in which we literally deserve Hell. But what does God do? He offers to get us out of trouble at his own expense. He offers to absorb within himself the consequences we have set in motion. He pays the price, so that we don’t have to, because we can’t anyway. That’s redemption. If you have sinned your way into helplessness, where you deserve to reap what you have sown, you can be redeemed. God is not only willing to pay the price, he already has — at the cross of Christ. You can enter into redemption freely, by his grace.
We add nothing to the value of Jesus’ sacrifice, but his love does claim all that we are. The flip side of God paying the price is that we are no longer our own (1 Corinthians 6:19b, 20a). What else can we do but repent? We need to repent of our sins every day. We need to repent of our fifth-rate righteousness every day. We need to receive afresh, with the empty hands of faith, real righteousness from Jesus Christ every day. The cross becomes a redeeming power for us as we learn what it means to repent.
From chapter five: The Transforming Power of Hope and Humility
We think too well of ourselves and too poorly of God to believe that his love for his glory and his love for us are one love, drawing him on to the final day when we will be forever happy with his glory alone. But how could it be otherwise? Human fulfillment is union with God.
Do you believe that there is enough glory in God to make you happy forever? If you don’t, why? What failing have you found in God? The gospel promises that his glory will remake the whole world. Stop valuing the idols you not only might lose but inevitably must lose. Learn to enjoy God. The triumph of his glory is enough to make your complete happiness forever invincible.
From chapter eight:
If your heart does not leap at God’s grace in Christ, what you need is more grace. Nothing else can save you from your own deadness. Therefore, fear your own hardness of heart more than anything else.9 Beware of rigidity, ingratitude, a demanding spirit. Beware of an unmelted heart that is never satisfied. Beware of a mind that looks for excuses not to believe. Beware of the impulse that always finds a reason to delay response. Beware of thinking how the sermon applies to someone else. God watches how you hear his Word. If you are ever again to receive it with at least the capacity for response that you have at this very moment, hear it now.
From chapter thirteen:
The heart sings when we accept how little it matters that we are in control and how much it matters that God is in control for us, when we discover how little it matters that we are able and how much it suffices that God is able on our behalf. The day we step into the messianic kingdom and find that God has been true to his word, we redeemed will erupt in music as never before.
December 28, 2022
I was reading through the book of Isaiah during a deeply discouraging season of life. Taking it in slowly and devotionally, sometimes even during dark sleepless hours, it was life preserving. Through it God revealed repeated visions of mercy and majesty against the backdrop of fallenness and sin. The everlasting God was not weary, nor weary with me.
I was reading from the ESV Study Bible with Ray Ortlund's notes on Isaiah. In that way, this brother/pastor became a kind, insightful friend pointing me to Jesus over and over again. I was thrilled to find that Ortlund also had a full commentary on Isaiah.
This book is overflowing with grace and fresh application. It's comprised of the sermons he preached on this grand book of prophecy. It's tethered to Isaiah's text and saturated with the Gospel. Praise God for the renewal He gives. I wholeheartedly recommend.
I was reading from the ESV Study Bible with Ray Ortlund's notes on Isaiah. In that way, this brother/pastor became a kind, insightful friend pointing me to Jesus over and over again. I was thrilled to find that Ortlund also had a full commentary on Isaiah.
This book is overflowing with grace and fresh application. It's comprised of the sermons he preached on this grand book of prophecy. It's tethered to Isaiah's text and saturated with the Gospel. Praise God for the renewal He gives. I wholeheartedly recommend.
January 10, 2020
Read this. This is a long one for a long Bible book. While it took a few months to work through, I could still have spend another few months digesting more of it. Isaiah is such a strange book upon first read. Ortland illuminates the text, brings out cultural understanding, interjects modern connections, and always always weaves the gospel in. Because isn't that the Bible? The story of God's loving redemption through Christ? The very thing Isaiah points towards. For me, this book was transformative.
January 21, 2023
This was my companion through a year-long study of Isaiah. It’s filled with Ray’s signature joy and enthusiasm for God and His plan, and his sincere encouragement for you to have that, too. While this does outline and explain Isaiah chapter by chapter, I’d call it more of a pastoral or devotional commentary rather than a technical one. And that suited me just fine this time around. Grateful for his dedication to studying the Bible and sharing it with Jesus’ church.
January 25, 2025
This was accessible and inspiring. Each chapter reads like a sermon for the text, as you would expect from the name of the series. The author doesn't hone in on theological complications and sadly doesn't always explain historical context as much as I would have hoped. (There is some of this.) But for that reason also, the sermons stay relevant and applicable.
November 10, 2022
What a heart-warming expounding of the book of Isaiah. Well applied to the public and private issues of life today.
January 2, 2024
Excellent read! I would highly recommend this to anyone!!
January 21, 2024
It was an was read, but I am withholding stars due to the preacher-ish, conversationalist approach. There were some leaps made in application that did not come directly from the text.
April 13, 2024
One of my favorites in the entire series
September 16, 2024
Awesome commentary on the book of Isaiah. Written for laymen, easy to understand.
July 10, 2025
This is the most encouraging uplifting and hopeful commentary I have ever read. It didn't just give me information from my head but gave me a love and longing in my heart.
July 6, 2022
Solid gold. Truly one of the two or three best non-fiction things I’ve ever read.
June 5, 2025
One of the best commentaries I ever read. It is excellently written and explained. Ortlund bring us to the deeper message of Isaiah and open up understanding on God's salvation and His glory. Recommended for anyone, those who just become a new believer, pastor, and every Christ follower.
June 7, 2013
This is an excellent commentary on the book of Isaiah. It is easy to read, challenging to the heart and spirit, and beautifully written by Ray Ortlund, Jr. HIGHLY recommended.
May 5, 2015
Homiletically helpful. Sometimes Ortlund takes too large of text chunks, in my opinion, making the sermons too long and far-reaching.
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