Isaiah's Repetitive

Isaiah takes a lot of crap for being so incomprehensible--an erroneous reading, because I've just realized that Isaiah says the same thing over and over and over. The sinners will be punished, then everlastingly redeemed. What was lost will be restored. What was scattered will be gathered. The antagonists will be reconciled. What was lost will be found. The punishment will be brief, the restoration forever. Even just now, I've said basically the same thing five times in a row. Isaiah's doing the same thing--sixty-six chapters of saying the same thing over.

I guess maybe there's some confusion because Isaiah doesn't differentiate between redemption on a geo-political level and on an individual level, between the past, present, or future, between the symbol and the signified. Which of course he wouldn't, because why would he? They all apply.

There are no hidden mysteries in Isaiah; only poetry, poetry so gorgeous that it's not even lost in translation, which is the mark of a great poet. Not that he isn't also a Prophet; on the contrary, poetry, writing in general, is just another form of revelation.