Week 743 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 28
Isaiah 28 · Memory verse Isaiah 28:22
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 28), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 28 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Isaiah 28 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 28:22: “Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 28?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 28 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, ““Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”” Isaiah 28 opens with these words: “Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the…” The line to keep is Isaiah 28:22: “Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.” Carry the word “scoffers” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 28:22: “Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 28? Then try this: Read “Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Isaiah 28. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 28:22. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 28 and write Isaiah 28:22 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 28:22
“Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 28. Help us remember Isaiah 28:22 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.