Yeshaya Perek 48 -Sefer Yeshaya is taught by Rabbi Albert Setton, Rabbi at Congregation Magen David of West Deal; Rabbi in Hillel Yeshiva.Yesha’ya speaks to the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin, who are fated to be exiled to Babylonia. They say they rely on G-d, but they are not truthful about it. They are called by the name of Jerusalem, the Holy City, and they express faith in G-d, but deep inside, they have doubts. G-d foretold earlier events - the redemption from Egypt and the salvation from Assyria in the time of Hizkiya - and they happened. But the Jewish people is a stubborn nation. G-d foretold these things so they would know that He did it and not some other power. Just as these past things came true as foretold, so will future events, such as those involving Cyrus. When G-d saved the Jewish people in Egypt, He knew they would ultimately sin. But G- d puts off His anger for them. He purifies the people in a “furnace of affliction,” through exile and poverty. G-d does this - punish
