Isaiah 18-22

Wow. Tough stuff to read without a complete commentary or two. Various prophecies against the nations. However the prophecy toward Cush of chapter 18 sounds like there will be conversions from among those people. Same with at least five cities of Egyptians in 19:18 and following. Yet those who trusted in their own nation would be put to shame and carried off.

Isaiah performed the task of living prophecy as well as living prophet. In 20:3 we learned that Isaiah walked around buck naked for three years to illustrate what would happen to these peoples. Tough work being a prophet...

Babylon's prophecy is written in an interesting way -- the surprising defeat of Babylon learned from the report of the lookout.

The Edom prophecy features a play on words -- Dumah means silence and the prophecy is about Edom being completely quiet, presumably because it has been destroyed.

The people of Jerusalem met with a fierce anger from the Lord. The final segment is about Isaiah's replacement, it appears, Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, and his eventual end as well.