The notion implied in the word servant necessarily points to someone (the lord) of whom he is
the servant. Isaianic notion of the servant is not an exception to this idea: the prophet is
not presenting an isolated and abstract concept of a servant but he is speaking about the
servant of Yahweh. The servant passages in Second Isaiah should therefore be read in relation
to other texts that present Yahweh as the Lord. These texts together explain the concept of the
servant. The work therefore reads twelve suggested Isaianic servant passages as original and
integral parts of Isaiah 40-53. Thirteen texts that present Yahweh as the Lord are also
analyzed. The Isaianic idea of the servant appears to be the result of the exilic
reinterpretation of the traditional servant of Yahweh concept.
