The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Ver. 1. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.] An august title or inscription, such as is not to be found in the whole book again, unless it be in the former chapter. There, alas! he had laboured in vain, and spent his strength for nought, and in vain. as Isa 49:4 Howbeit, he will try again, as considering that he had lost many a worse labour; and although his report were not believed, Isa 53:1 yet he would bestow one more sermon upon them, the short notes and general heads whereof we have in this and the two following Chapter s: I say, the general heads, for Calvin in his preface to this book telleth us, that it was the manner of the holy prophets to gather a compendious sum of what they had preached to the people, and the same to affix to the gates of the temple, that the prophecy might be the better viewed and learned of all, after which it was taken down by the priest, and put into the treasury of the temple, for the benefit of after ages.