Editing Book of Isaiah (section)

=== Overview ===
The Book of Isaiah focuses on the main role of Jerusalem in God's plan for the world, seeing centuries of history as though they were all the single vision of the 8th-century prophet Isaiah.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p= 78}}

* Proto-Isaiah speaks of Israel's desertion of God and what will follow: Israel will be destroyed by foreign enemies, but after the people, the country and Jerusalem are punished and purified, a remnant of Israel will live in God's place in Zion, governed by God's chosen king, under the presence and protection of God.
* Deutero-Isaiah has as its subject the liberation of Israel from captivity in Babylon in another [[The Exodus|Exodus]], which the God of Israel will arrange using Cyrus, the Persian conqueror, as his agent.
* Trito-Isaiah concerns Jerusalem, the Temple, the Sabbath, and Israel's salvation.{{sfn|Lemche|2008|pp=18–20}} (More explicitly, it concerns questions current among Jews living in Jerusalem and Judea in the [[Second Temple period|post-Exilic]] period about who is a God-loving Jew and who is not).{{sfn|Lemche|2008|p=233}}

[[Walter Brueggemann]] has described this overarching narrative as "a continued meditation upon the destiny of Jerusalem".{{sfn|Brueggemann|2003|p= 160}}