64:10-12
This is definitely set in the exilic period, for Isaiah refers to Jerusalem having become a wasteland, a desolation. The temple itself had been utterly destroyed. He then asks God if He will stand back forever, will He just abandon them? Underlying this is the belief that they were God’s people, that they had sinned and deserved all they got, but that God was all powerful and could do something about it. His hope lay in God alone.
One might ask how Isaiah could write this many, many years before it happened? And this is why most scholars will tell you someone else wrote it. But Isaiah is a prophet, he is writing out of revelation from God (but not as an automaton!). So he was enabled to foresee where things were going.
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