One of the greatest prophets in the Bible, whose writings span from fierce warnings of judgment to breathtaking visions of the coming Messiah. Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of four kings and personally counseled King Hezekiah during the Assyrian crisis. His prophecies about the suffering servant, the virgin birth, and the coming Prince of Peace are among the most detailed messianic predictions in Scripture. Jesus quoted Isaiah more than any other prophet, and early Christians saw Isaiah 53 as a blueprint for the crucifixion.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” “Here am I. Send me!”Isaiah 6:8 · Berean Standard Bible
This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah sees further and says more than perhaps any other prophet. His words stretch from judgment to hope, from exile to a suffering servant who changes everything.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and…
Isaiah sees God on His throne. The seraphim cry out. The temple shakes. And a man undone by his own unworthiness hears: who will go?
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
Ahaz is afraid to ask God for a sign. Isaiah gives him one anyway: a virgin will conceive and bear a son — Immanuel, God with us.
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our…
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