Week 762 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 47
Isaiah 47 · Memory verse Isaiah 47:6
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 47), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 47 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read Isaiah 47 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 47:6: “I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 47?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 47 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.” 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, ““Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.’” Isaiah 47 opens with these words: ““Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will…” The line to keep is Isaiah 47:6: “I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.” Carry the word “angry” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 47:6: “I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 47? Then try this: Read “I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no…” 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 47. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 47:6. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 47 and write Isaiah 47:6 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 47:6
“I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 47. Help us remember Isaiah 47:6 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.