Fifth Sunday After The Epiphany
Lectionary Preaching Workbook
Chapter 40 is the opening chapter of Deutero-Isaiah written in
540 B.C. at a time of the Babylonian captivity. God's people are
slaves in a foreign land. They are weak and helpless. They need a
message from Yahweh. He is a God of power and glory. The people
are saying that their God does not know of their situation.
Yahweh reminds them that he is creator of the world, an
everlasting God who gives strength to the powerless. They that
wait on the Lord shall have his strength to bear the burdens of
life.