Chapters 40-66 the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, addressed to the Jews in exile in Babylon, belong to a period from about 547 B.C. when Babylonian power was weakening before the might of King Cyrus of Persia.
Comments on the oracles of a prophet who lived in the closing half of the 8th century B. C. and whose interest in contemporary politics and international affairs was the product of his faith in the Holy God, who rules in and over all history.