I am he who comforts you

Isaiah 51:12-23
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass, that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction?
Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.
This is what your Sovereign Lord says, your God, who defends his people:“See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again. I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,  who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on.”
The terrible time of suffering is past.
Why?
God gave Israel good news that the terrible time is over. The wrath of God's cup will be past away.
Why they suffered such disaster is because of their sins and make God wrath. But God is full of mercy and love, God promise that they never drink again this wrath cup.
All human beings who are but grass, remember the Lord my maker, who created the heaven and earth. My life is depends on the Lord.
God is my comforter, my strength, listen to his word and follow his way.
How?
Remember God who is my Lord, Maker of me!

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, the heavens will vanish like smoke

Isaiah 51:1-11
Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me;
my justice will become a light to the nations.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever,  my righteousness will never fail.
But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.
Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength!
Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
God always keeps his promises. As he kept his word to childless Abraham and Sarah, so he will save his people and with them alll the nations.
Why?
Listen to God's word and lift up our eyes to the heavens, God is always keep his promises. God's salvation will last forever, his righteousness will never fail. 
Awake and be strong, clothee myself with strength!
Do not listen to the word among people, but the word of the Lord. This is generation of many information, but be careful, only God's word is my way and my strength.
Thia world will passed away, the heaven will vanish like smoke, But God's salvation will last forever, God's righteousness will never fail. This is my promise from the Lord.
How?
Listen to God, and lift up my eyes to the heavens. My Lord is a living God.

Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you?

Isaiah 50:1-11
Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord  and rely on their God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
In the third Servant Song, for the first time we glimpse his suffering and rejection. But nothing can deflect him from his purpose.
Why?
Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you?  God can save us God is the sovereign Lord, but for our sins and transgressions so we were suffered and be sent away.
Isaiah gave us the way that the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant?  This is the key to be blessed.
There is dark and not light, people though it is the day light or torch, but God is the light of our soul and heart. God's light can show our inner sins and transgression in our mind. But very sad that most people still hard their neck and heart, walk on their won way. They thought that is right way, but to the downfall.
How?
Fear the Lord and obey the word of his servant.

Those who hope in me will not be disappointed.

Isaiah 49:14-26
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I will beckon(招手) to the nations,  I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips. Kings will be your foster fathers,  and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend(抗爭) with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Comfort, compassion and restoration are the keynotes.
Why?
People was doubted and suspected that how God can rescue them, how to help them escape from captive.
Yes, God is the our Savior, our Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. His arm never shorten, his strength never weary. 
God word stand firm forever. God is the mother of his children, even better than his own mother. God will not forsake his children.
How?
Shout to the Lord and rejoice to the God, He is reign, God is my all in all.

My reward is with my God.

Isaiah 49:01-13
I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me in the Lord's hand, and my reward is with my God.
And now the Lord says - he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength - he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation my reach to the ends of the earth.
The Redeemer and Holy One of Israell - to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers; "King will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth: burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
Part tow of the larger section (40-50) opens with the second 'Servant Song'. God's servant is Israel, yet also one who will bring Israel back.
Why?
What is due me in the Lord's hand and my reward is with my God. I am looking forward to my Lord, He is my hope and my way.
Jesus Christ is the light to all people in the dark, Jesus Chris is the way of salvation.
Shout for joy, you heaven; rejoice, your earth; burst into song, you mountain. All of the world, all the creation will give praise to the Lord.
How?
Shout for joy, rejoice, for the Jesus Christ is reign in the heaven and in the world. He is my salvation .

Paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river

Isaiah 48:1-22
You who take oath in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel - but not in truth or righteousness.
You have heard these things; look at them all, Will you not admit them? "From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.
For my own name's sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely. See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called; I am he; I am the first and I am the last.
If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.
Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth' say, "The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob."
From Babylon, we turn back to Israel. This chapter is the climax(高潮) to what has gone before in 40-47. It marks a break in the section as a whole: chapters 49-55 are 'part two'. There are harsh words for God's people. Stubborn, deaf to God, treacherous and rebellious they have fully deserved all they have suffered.
Verse 1-11 largely concern the past, 12-22 the future. All that God foretold in their past history has come true. Now he is telling them something new. God always purposed peace for his people, but there could be ' no peace for the wicked'. Now the moment of liberation has come; he says 'Go out from Babylon go free!'
Why?
God is righteousness who do not allow the wicked one and the punished will be with them. God is love who always  love his people, for sake of God's name does not destroy them completely, God delay his wrath. So do not think there is not God, God is waiting for our repentance, let us have opportunity to turn to God.
Leave Babylon, it is free from slavery. so as leave this world's attract and the custom, but obey the word of the Lord.
From now God will tell us of new things, of hidden things unknown to us. God is the Lord doing new things.
How?
Trust in the Lord, and paid attention to God's commands, his peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.

Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you

Isaiah 47:1-15
The fall of Babylon.
You said, I am forever - the eternal queen! But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen. Now then, listen, you love of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am , and there is none beside me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children'. Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood.
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said,'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself,'I am, there is none besides me.'
That is all they are to you - these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.
This chapter is a taunt-song to the metre of a funeral procession. Babylon will be shown as little mercy as the Babylonians have show others.
Why?
Babylon were shown no mercy to other country people, so all of the terror and calamity come upon them in a moment without mercy. What they trusted is gone.
Wisdom and knowledge mislead Babylon, for the arrogance,. It is same to us today. We need wisdom and knowledge but it should be from the Lord and use it in the right way to benefit men.
Be humble, do not trust in what I have done or what I have, but trust in the Lord, his word and his faithfulness.
Many mind and consideration is built with since childhood, but careful to check it, it may be wrong or mislead us.
How?
Trust in the Lord and walk with Him with faith and love and hope.