Let us apply Wellhausen's hypothesis to Second Isaiah. Isaiah 40-66 makes, perhaps, the clearest statements about the scope of God's majesty. He is depicted as sovereign over all of creation. In spite of your many sorceries And the great power of your Enchantments. God is the process of time itself, bringing things into being, things that pass away.
All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower of the field.
Isaiah mocks idolatry because it is the worship of a thing subject to the processes of creation. The hope that Isaiah offers is that of time. The oppressor succumbs to death and with each new life, hope is offered. God's act of sovereignty is not the product of conquest but creation. If you offer your food to the hungry And satisfy the needs of t he afflicted Then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.