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This chapter has the second of the "Servant Songs". Here we have the servant, Isaiah, symbolizing the work of Christ, as mediator, as a light to all nations that God's plan of salvation might reach to the ends of the earth. Assured here is the success of the work among the Gentiles, delivering them out of the bondage of sin. A parallel to the deliverance of the Jews from the bondage of Babylon.
The deliverance so wonderfully described in the preceding chapter may seem to overshadow the actual event. Here the Prophet wants to assure them that the return of some 40,000 Jews in bad condition to a completely destroyed country will far outshine the prophesy in the promise of a coming redeemer that will save the world. Cyrus, the redeemer here, was only a shadow of the true redeemer that would come out of this remnant that returned to Judah.
Prophesied here was the designation of Christ as redeemer and mediator, the assurance of His success among the Gentiles, a prophesy of persecution of that Church and a promise of deliverance from that persecution. Thus we are more a part of this redemption of the Jews out of Babylon than perhaps we thought we were.
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