Emphasis Preaching Journal

Many scholars think that Isaiah 55 was written during the end of the terrible years of exile. Hope must have flickered low. After years and years of living in a strange land, hope must have been a rare commodity. So the prophet Isaiah used a word his fellow- exiles would understand: water. Water was as rare as hope. They were surrounded by the desert. Their forebears had once criss-crossed a wilderness desert for forty years. Jerusalem was surrounded by desert. The exiles had been dragged hundreds of miles across the desert to cursed Babylon.