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QUESTIONS FOR ISAIAH 56 – 57:

1. What are the people to keep and what is near to come? (vs. 1)

2. What law is Isaiah concerned with the people keeping? (vs. 2)

3. What to classes of individuals are addressed in these verses? (vs. 3)

4. How will God reward these two classes? (vs. 4-7)

5. Who does the Lord gather to himself? (vs. 8)

6. What does God direct the wild animals to do? (vs. 9)

7. How are the spiritual leaders of Jerusalem described and what does it mean? (vs. 10)

8. Can they ever be satisfied with material gain? (vs. 11)

9. Rather than righteousness, what are they given to? (vs. 12)

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10. What happens to the righteous man? (vs. 1)

11. Why does God allow this to happen? (vs. 1-2)

12. How does God refer to the idolaters of Jerusalem? (vs. 3)

13. How is their disrespect for God manifest? (vs. 4)

14. What did these people do in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? (vs. 5)

15. Where is the lot of the idolater, and is God appeased? (vs. 6)

16. What two things were done on a high and lofty mountain? (vs. 7)

17. To what is their idolatry compared? (vs. 8)

18. How low did the leaders of Jerusalem go in debasing themselves with idols? (vs. 9)

19. How determined were they to serve other gods? (vs. 10)

20. What had their fear of idol gods caused them to do? (vs. 11)

21. Who did God tell them to depend on now when they got into trouble? (vs. 13)

22. Those who take refuge in God will do what? (vs 13)

23. What will God do for the humble? (vs. 14-15)

24. Why did God smite Judah? (vs. 17)

25. What will God do for those who are penitent? (vs. 18)

26. What does God create and what does it mean? (vs. 19)

27. What will the wicked have none of? (vs. 20)