The Lord here calls Israel to wake up! He is just about ready to announce a great event.
V.3 He tells them that they sold themselves to the Gentiles around them and they received no payment, then He tells them they are going to be restored later on and they won’t be asked to pay anything!
V.4 the Lord reminds them of their sad days in Egypt and of how they were oppressed.
V.5 He asks what does He have as a result. Nothing but howls from them, and His Name is blasphemed!
V.6 Then He tells them that a day is coming when they’ll know that “I am HE” and “Here I am.” They had completely forgotten the Lord who had done so much for them!
V.7-12 A great call to His people to listen to what HE is going to do for them!
Now we read the greatest reference in the whole of the Old Testament to the Lord Jesus dying on the cross. Remember it was written 500 years before He came to earth! Some of the tenderest, sweetest, most touching expressions in the whole Bible. The last 3 verses of this chapter and the entire 53rd chapter, form a great “V.” Firstly we read, in these 3 verses, the heights, the glory of the Lord Jesus. Then in the 53rd chapter, we see the great valley, and great depths to which the Lord plunged in His life here on earth and on the cross. Then at the end of this chapter, we read of the height of glory to which He will be raised when He is in His resurrection and glorified life.
V.14 No man’s face was ever marred like His!
V.15 Many Gentile nations on the earth in the millennium shall turn to the Lord and be astonished at what they learn of Him.