Haftorah

📖 Summary of Yeshayahu 49:14-51:3

 

• G-d promises not to forget Jerusalem and the Jewish people: Zion will claim that she has been forgotten, however G-d will proclaim that He will not forget her, and that her walls are always before His eyes. When the redemption comes everyone will lift their eyes and see the multitude coming to Jerusalem.
• Gentile nations will assist and glorify the Jewish people: The gentiles themselves will bring the Jewish people to the land of Israel carrying both the men and women to Israel. Their kings and queens will help raise the children of the Jewish people, serving as wet nurses and caretakers. They will prostrate themselves before you and lick the dust off your feet. I will fight against your enemies and save your children. I will give their carcasses to the animals to be eaten.
• The cause for the exile: G-d says, have I given a bill of divorce to your mother, and have I sold you in exchange for a debt? It is only due to your sins that you have been exiled.
• Waiting for repentance: Why have I come and waited for you to repent when no man has answered My call? Am I not the one who with one shout dried the land and turned rivers into deserts. I can make the heavens wear dark clouds and make the Gentiles wear sackcloth.
• Clear prophecies: G-d has given me clear prophecies which are understood by the listeners. G-d has opened my ears, so I be befitting of receiving His prophecy.
• Yeshaya speaks of the oppositions he faced during his prophecies and how G-d always stood by his side.
• Look at what I did for your ancestor Abraham and Sarah, that I blessed them and increased their offspring.
• From a desert to a garden: G-d will comfort Zion and turn their deserts into gardens. Like a garden of G-d.