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First Isaiah, Isaiah Chapters 1 thru 39, covers the history of Judah in the 8th century BC. The first 11 chapters covers a vision that occurred to Isaiah, more accurately described as a revelation seen in the eyes of his mind as clearly as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes. It contains a sermon, in God's name, against the Jewish church and nation.
Chapter 1 describes their sins, their ingratitude, their universal corruption, their perverted justice, their complaining about God's judgments and their hypocrisy and ends with a plea for repentance and reformation.
The first verse of this chapter was intended to have been a title of the whole book. "The Vision of Isaiah". We learn that He was the son of Amoz who was the son or brother of Amaziah, King of Judah 800-783 BC and that the "vision" concerned the people of Judah and especially those of Jerusalem. He wrote of conditions that existed during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, which were the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th King of Judah respectively and reigned from 790 to 656 BC.
He describes them as a sinful nation, laden with iniquity, children of corrupters who have forsaken the Lord. He believes that if it hadn't been that the Lord left them with a handful of believers, they would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah. He pleads with them to make themselves "clean", learn to do well and seek God's judgment and get on with their lives.
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