Book of Isaiah (KJV)
Isaiah is the great prophet of comfort and salvation in the King James Version. Below are its most-loved passages — jump to Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 41:10, or Isaiah 53— then read the book’s overview and the full list of all 66 chapters with an opening-line preview. Looking for a particular line? Search all three translations.
Most-Loved Verses in Isaiah
The three passages people quote and search for most, shown in the KJV. Each links to its full chapter and to related verses by subject.
Isaiah 40:31 — Renew Your Strength
The close of Isaiah 40, the great chapter of comfort. To those who are weary and worn out, the promise is that waiting on the LORD renews strength — to mount up with wings as eagles, to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint. One of the most quoted verses in Scripture for endurance and hope.
Isaiah 41:10 — Do Not Fear
God's answer to fear, spoken to a people facing exile: “Fear thou not; for I am with thee.” The verse gathers four promises in a line — I am with thee, I am thy God, I will strengthen and help thee, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. A verse people carry into anxiety, illness, and hard decisions.
Isaiah 53 — The Suffering Servant
The heart of Isaiah's fourth Servant Song (52:13-53:12), written centuries before Christ yet read by Christians as a portrait of his death: wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, and “with his stripes we are healed.” The most quoted verse of the chapter, and the reason Isaiah is called the gospel prophet.
Book of Isaiah Overview
Author and date.Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied in Jerusalem in the 8th century BC, under the kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (1:1). His call — seeing the LORD “high and lifted up” and answering “Here am I; send me” — is recorded in Isaiah 6. His name means “the LORD is salvation.”
Structure.Isaiah’s 66 chapters are often read in two movements. Chapters 1–39 bring warnings of judgment on Judah and the surrounding nations, alongside promises of a coming king (“unto us a child is born,” Isaiah 9:6). Chapters 40–66 turn to comfort: return from exile, the servant who suffers for his people, and a new heavens and new earth.
Theme.From first to last the book holds judgment and hope together. Sin is named plainly, yet the last word is redemption — strength for the weary (40:31), “fear thou not” for the afraid (41:10), and a servant who is wounded so that others may be healed (53:5). It is quoted more in the New Testament than any book but Psalms, and is often called the gospel prophet.
All 66 Chapters of Isaiah
The complete Book of Isaiah, each chapter shown with its opening line. Select any chapter to read the full text in the King James Version.
- Isaiah 1The 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.
- Isaiah 2The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 3For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
- Isaiah 4And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
- Isaiah 5Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
- Isaiah 6In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
- Isaiah 7And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
- Isaiah 8Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
- Isaiah 9Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
- Isaiah 10Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
- Isaiah 11And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
- Isaiah 12And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
- Isaiah 13The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Isaiah 14For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 15The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
- Isaiah 16Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- Isaiah 17The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
- Isaiah 18Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
- Isaiah 19The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Isaiah 20In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
- Isaiah 21The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
- Isaiah 22The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
- Isaiah 23The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
- Isaiah 24Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
- Isaiah 25O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
- Isaiah 26In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
- Isaiah 27In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
- Isaiah 28Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Isaiah 29Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
- Isaiah 30Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
- Isaiah 31Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
- Isaiah 32Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
- Isaiah 33Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
- Isaiah 34Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
- Isaiah 35The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- Isaiah 36Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
- Isaiah 37And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 38In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
- Isaiah 39At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
- Isaiah 40Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- Isaiah 41Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
- Isaiah 42Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
- Isaiah 43But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
- Isaiah 44Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
- Isaiah 45Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
- Isaiah 46Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
- Isaiah 47Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
- Isaiah 48Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
- Isaiah 49Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
- Isaiah 50Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
- Isaiah 51Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
- Isaiah 52Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
- Isaiah 53Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
- Isaiah 54Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
- Isaiah 55Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- Isaiah 56Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
- Isaiah 57The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
- Isaiah 58Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
- Isaiah 59Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
- Isaiah 60Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
- Isaiah 61The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- Isaiah 62For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
- Isaiah 63Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
- Isaiah 64Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
- Isaiah 65I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
- Isaiah 66Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Recommended reading
Study Bibles & devotionals
Go deeper than a single verse. These study Bibles and daily devotionals pair well with the topics here — adding context, commentary, and a rhythm for daily reading.
ESV Study Bible
Crossway
Over 20,000 study notes, maps, and articles — the go-to one-volume study Bible for understanding scripture in context.
Life Application Study Bible (NIV)
Tyndale / Zondervan
Notes that connect each passage to everyday life — ideal alongside the topical verses on this page.
Jesus Calling
Sarah Young
A year of short daily devotions written as if Jesus is speaking — a gentle companion to daily scripture reading.
My Utmost for His Highest
Oswald Chambers
The classic daily devotional — 365 readings that have shaped Christian devotion for over a century.
As an Amazon Associate this site earns from qualifying purchases. Links are sponsored. Browse all topics →
Keep Exploring
Follow Isaiah’s themes across the whole Bible — strength for the weary and hope in hard seasons — or browse every subject in the Topics index.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Isaiah 40:31 mean?
Isaiah 40:31 promises that “they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength.” Spoken to a weary, exiled people, it teaches that strength comes not from our own effort but from waiting on — trusting and hoping in — God. The three images build: to mount up with wings as eagles (rising above trouble), to run and not be weary (endurance in effort), and to walk and not faint (steadiness in the long, ordinary road). It is one of the Bible's best-loved verses on hope and renewal.
What is Isaiah 53 about?
Isaiah 53 is the fourth and best-known of Isaiah's “Servant Songs.” It describes a servant of the LORD who is despised and rejected, who bears the sins of others, and who suffers and dies in their place — “he was wounded for our transgressions … and with his stripes we are healed” (53:5). Written centuries before Jesus, it is read by Christians as a prophecy of his crucifixion, and it is quoted throughout the New Testament. It is the reason Isaiah is often called the gospel prophet.
How many chapters are in the Book of Isaiah?
The Book of Isaiah has 66 chapters, making it one of the longest books in the Bible and the first of the Major Prophets. It is often divided in two: chapters 1-39, largely warnings of judgment on Judah and the nations, and chapters 40-66, a message of comfort, return from exile, and the coming servant and new creation.
Who was Isaiah?
Isaiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered in Jerusalem in the 8th century BC, during the reigns of kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah. His call, in which he sees the LORD “high and lifted up” and answers “Here am I; send me,” is recorded in Isaiah 6. His name means “the LORD is salvation,” and his book carries that theme from judgment through to the promise of a redeemer.