God’s people don’t believe or testify of the God of prophecy
Isaiah 43:9–10
Who among them foretold these things,
or predicted events that have come to pass?
Let them bring their witnesses
and justify themselves,
that those within hearing may say, It is true.
But you are my witnesses, says Jehovah,
my servant whom I have chosen,
to the end that you may recognize it and believe me,
and perceive that I was the one [who foretold them]—
before me no god was formed,
nor shall one exist after me.
God’s people are captive to idols, the works of men’s hands
Isaiah 44:20–21
They are followers of ashes;
their deluded minds have distracted them.
They cannot liberate themselves [from them] or say,
Surely this thing in my hand is a fraud.
Ponder these things, O Jacob, and you, O Israel,
for you are my servant.
I have created you to be my servant, O Israel;
Do not disregard me.
Blinded by idolatry, they are overtaken by God’s judgments
Isaiah 42:17–20
But those who trust in idols
and esteem their images as gods
shall retreat in utter confusion.
O you deaf, listen; O you blind, look and see!
Who is blind but my own servant,
or so deaf as the messenger I have sent?
Who is blind like those I have commissioned,
as uncomprehending as the servant of Jehovah—
seeing much but not giving heed,
with open ears hearing nothing?
God’s people live in fear. He sends them his hand, his servant
Isaiah 41:8–10
You, O Israel, my servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
offspring of Abraham my beloved friend,
you whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
called from its farthest limits—
to you I say, You are my servant;
I have accepted you and not rejected you.
Be not fearful, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you; I will also succor you
and uphold you with my righteous right hand.
God’s people must exit Babylon and enter the wilderness
Isaiah 48:20–21
Go forth out of Babylon, flee from Chaldea!
Make this announcement with resounding voice;
broadcast it to the end of the earth.
Say, Jehovah has redeemed his servant Jacob.
They thirsted not when he led them through arid places:
he caused water to flow for them from the rock;
he cleaved the rock and water gushed out.
