Old Testament Commentary - Isaiah 1

The current introduction of verse 1 to this first chapter of Isaiah seems to be from a Jewish third-person perspective or if it is Isaiah's words, he is speaking of himself from the 'thrid-person' perspective. If it is not Isaiah speaking or introducing his vision, but some later Jewish compiler, the narrator and or editor of Isaiah's works seems to know and understand Isaiah's work well enough to proclaim that it was visionary. Thus, though the Jewish compiler of the record notes that Isaiah's days were in those of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, and that this Jewish compliler considers Isaiah's vision to be but concerning Judah and Jerusalem; this is but a part of Isaiah's perspective. For Isaiah's vision is vastly more wide spread and Isaiah speaks concerning all of Israel and from a much more universal and panoramic visionary perspective concerning the entire house of Israel and of that more extensive concept of the 'Righteous City of the Lord', which has long since been named 'Jerusalem', even from before the foundation of the world (See Commentary Zechariah 3:2). Yet we can further gain from the writings of the Book of Mormon, that Isaiah is actually speaking from his own visionary experience of having received the 'Vision of All' himself. And that becomes an enlightening fact to consider that Isaiah has written 66 chapters of prophecies based upon and from that very 'vision'.