Overview of Isaiah - Isaiah (Part 1)

Isaiah 1:1 (ESV) The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 1. The book of Isaiah is about rebellious children. 1. The book of Isaiah is about rebellious children. Isaiah 1:2 (ESV) Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. 1. The book of Isaiah is about rebellious children. – Isaiah 1:3 4 (ESV) The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not 4 know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Romans 15:4 (ESV) For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Isaiah 1:2 (ESV) Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. Isaiah 1:28 (ESV) But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed. Isaiah 1:5 (ESV) Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. recalcitrant: "unwilling to do what you are asked or ordered to do, even if it is reasonable" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/recalcitrant. accessed 15 January 2026 - Isaiah 1:19 20 (ESV) If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” f Isaiah 43:27 (ESV) Your irst father sinned, and your mediators transgressed [lit. rebelled] against me. Isaiah 48:8b (ESV) For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel. 2. The book of Isaiah is about God as the Holy One of Israel. 2. The book of Isaiah is about God as the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 1:4 (ESV) Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. 2. The book of Isaiah is about God as the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 5:24c (ESV) for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 2. The book of Isaiah is about God as the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 6:3 (ESV) And one [seraph] called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” Isaiah 6:5 (ESV) And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” 3. The book of Isaiah is also about redemption. 3. The book of Isaiah is also about redemption. Isaiah 1:27 (ESV) Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness 3. The book of Isaiah is also about redemption. Isaiah 47:4 (ESV) Our Redeemer—the LORD of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel. 3. The book of Isaiah is also about redemption. Isaiah 54:5 (ESV) For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. Isaiah 50:5 (ESV) The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. Isaiah 53:12 (ESV) Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors [lit. rebels]; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors [lit. rebels]. f Isaiah 44:23 (ESV) Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glori ied in Israel. 4. The Book of Isaiah is about the Holy One of Israel redeeming rebellious children to be His servants. 4. The Book of Isaiah is about the Holy One of Israel redeeming rebellious children to be His servants. Isaiah 48:20 (ESV) Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!” 4. The Book of Isaiah is about the Holy One of Israel redeeming rebellious children to be His servants. Isaiah 43:10 (ESV) “You [plural] are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. Exodus 19:6 (ESV) and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” Isaiah 66:19 (ESV) and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. – 1 Peter 1:15 16 (ESV) but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your 16 conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” I 1 Peter 1:14 16 (ESV) ) As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of 15 your former ignorance, but as he who called – you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:18 (ESV) knowing that you were ransomed [lit. redeemed] from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 1 Peter 2:5 (ESV) you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:9 (ESV) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light – Isaiah 1:28 31 (ESV) But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed. . . . 31And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them. f Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their ire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” f – I Isaiah 1:28 31 (ESV) But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD 31 shall be consumed. . . . And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them. Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their ire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” I Isaiah 1:28–31 (ESV) But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD 31 shall be consumed. . . . And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them. Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” Isaiah 1:27 (ESV) Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent [shall be redeemed], by righteousness. – Isaiah 66:23 24 (ESV) From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, 24 declares the LORD. “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”