Week 761 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 46
Isaiah 46 · Memory verse Isaiah 46:6
Get the free weekly Sunday school and bedtime printable pack
For a parent or teacher. Children do not make accounts here. The pack is a week of printables, not a child profile.
Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 46), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 46 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read Isaiah 46 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 46:6: “Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 46?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 46 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.” 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, “They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.” Isaiah 46 opens with these words: “Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads,…” The line to keep is Isaiah 46:6: “Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.” Carry the word “pour” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 46:6: “Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 46? Then try this: Read “Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a…” 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 46. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 46:6. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 46 and write Isaiah 46:6 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 46:6
“Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 46. Help us remember Isaiah 46:6 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.