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Captives with camel and baggage on their way into exile, detail of the Assyrian conquest of the Jewish fortified town of Lachish (battle 701 BCE), part of a relief from the palace of Sennacherib at Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq) by Unknown Assyrian artist
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard by Rembrandt van Rijn
Creation of Wartime III by Samuel Bak

Isaiah 5 A Song of a Vineyard

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata by Giotto
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly by James Hampton
Isaiah Clerestory Window by Rowan LeCompte

Isaiah 6 Holy, Holy, Holy

Tree of Jesse from an English Psalter in Latin by Unknown English Artist
Untitled (Rejoice!), from 'Inflammatory Essays' by Jenny Holzer
The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks

Isaiah 11:1–10 War and Peace

The Fall of Babylon, from Illustrations of the Bible, John Martin
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Death of Akkadian King, by Vivan Sundaram

Isaiah 13:1–14:27 Destruction in Progress

A Wonderful citrus orchard by Trent Davis Bailey
Onement, I by Barnett Newman
A Kurdish Syrian woman walks with her child past the ruins of the town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab by Yasin Akgül

Isaiah 28 Grounds for Hope

Andromeda by Anselm Kiefer
Aperiatur Terra et Germinet Salvatorem by Anselm Kiefer
nubes pluant by Anselm Kiefer

Isaiah 44:21–45:8 ‘Drop Down Ye Heavens’

Crucified Tree Form—The Agony by Theyre Lee-Elliott
Untitled (The Healing of Saint Thomas) by Anish Kapoor
Christ d'Assy I by Germaine Richier

Isaiah 53 Stricken, Smitten, Bruised, and Afflicted

The Rain Room (as installed at Barbican Centre, London) by Random International
Summertime: Number 9A by Jackson Pollock
Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (Effect of Sunlight) by Camille Pissarro

Isaiah 55 Return Again

Adoration of the Magi (Panel from the altarpiece of the chancel of Viseu Cathedral) by Vasco Fernandes
The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi by Edward Burne-Jones
The Adoration of the Magi by Unknown Neapolitan artist, follower of Giotto

Isaiah 60 And Kings Shall Come

Christ in the Winepress (The Mystical Winepress) in Breviarium Romanum by Jakob Wolff (Basel c.1493), print pasted in front mirror by Caspar (?)
La Bouche du Roi by Romuald Hazoumé
Christ in the Winepress by Nicolas Pinaigrier

Isaiah 63:1–14 The Winepress


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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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