ISAIAH CHAPTER 1
Judah's sins, Isaiah 1:1-4; her judgments, Isaiah 1:5-9; her worship is rejected, Isaiah 1:10-15 . Exhortations to repentance; promises of grace and mercy; threatenings of sore judgments; and complaints by reason of their backsliding, Isaiah 1:16-31 .
The vision, or, the visions; the word being here collectively used, as it Isaiah 22:1 1 Samuel 3:1 . The sense is, This is the book of the visions or prophecies. As prophets were called seers, 1 Samuel 9:9 , so prophecies are called visions, because they were as clearly and certainly represented to the prophets' minds as bodily objects are to men's eyes.
Amoz; either the brother of Amaziah king of Judah, as the Hebrew writers fancy; or rather, some other person then well known.
Saw, i.e. foresaw and foretold. But he speaks, after the manner of the prophets, of things to come as if they were either past or present.
Concerning Judah and Jerusalem; principally, but not exclusively. For he prophesieth also concerning Egypt and Babylon, and divers other countries; which yet he doth with respect to Judah.
In the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah; in the time of their reign; whence it may be gathered that Isaiah exercised his prophetical office above fifty years together: see 2Ki 15 2Ki 16.