‘The Redeemer will come to Zion,
    to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,’
declares the Lord.

21 ‘As for me, this is my covenant with them,’ says the Lord. ‘My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants – from this time on and for ever,’ says the Lord.

Somebody said that the gospel is bad news before it is good news. The flow of this chapter takes us from the bad and into the good.

‘Isaiah has moved from his people’s sins to their confession of sin, then to God’s judgment on evildoers, and here finally to God’s redemption of his repentant people-the remnant of Israel.’ Tom Hale: ‘Applied Old Testament Commentary’, p.1064.

”The Redeemer” has come, and His Name is Jesus. He gives grace and forgiveness to all who will repent of their sins. Through Him we experience the New Covenant (see Jer.31:31-34), with His two great everlasting Covenant gifts: His ”Spirit” and His ”Words”.

How precious it is to be the recipients.