Book of Isaiah
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50 free Book of Isaiah trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Isaiah is the prophet the New Testament quotes again and again, and the book that carries his name runs from warnings to a kingdom under threat to some of the most hopeful poetry in the Bible. Its images have slipped into everyday speech, into music and into church readings. This quiz walks through all 66 chapters: the vision in the temple, the signs given to the kings of Judah, the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, the promises to the exiles in chapters 40 to 55, the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 and the closing visions of chapters 56 to 66. A few questions look at how the book was copied, studied and quoted later on. It suits Bible study groups, Sunday school teachers, quiz leaders and anyone reading Isaiah who wants to test what has stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01According to Isaiah 2:4, nations that stop learning war will beat their swords into which farming tools?
Plowshares
Plowshares gave the verse a long afterlife: a bronze statue in the United Nations garden, a gift from the Soviet Union, shows a man hammering a sword into one.
Q 02Often misquoted as the lion, which predator does Isaiah 11:6 actually picture living with the lamb?
The wolf
The wolf dwells with the lamb, while the lion turns up later in the verse beside a calf, with a little child leading them all.
Q 03Which name does Isaiah 7:14 give the child promised as a sign to King Ahaz, a verse Matthew later quotes?
Immanuel
Immanuel means God with us, and Matthew 1:23 quotes the verse when it tells of the birth of Jesus.
Q 04Which Persian king does Isaiah 45:1 call the Lord's anointed, a title usually kept for Israel's own kings?
Cyrus
Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC and let the Jewish exiles go home, and Isaiah 44:28 also calls him God's shepherd who will see the temple rebuilt.
Q 05According to Isaiah 40:31, those who wait on the Lord will rise up on wings like which birds?
Eagles
Eagles are the image, and the verse adds that such people will run without growing weary and walk without fainting.
Q 06In Isaiah 1:18, God offers to turn sins that are red as scarlet as white as what?
Snow
Snow is the promise, and the verse opens with an invitation from God to come and reason the matter out together.
Q 07Isaiah 53:6 compares all people who have turned to their own way to which straying animals?
Sheep
Sheep that have wandered off stand for everyone, the verse says, and the wrongdoing of them all is laid on the suffering servant.
Q 08All four Gospels apply Isaiah 40:3, about a voice crying in the wilderness, to which New Testament figure?
John the Baptist
John the Baptist is the voice in all four Gospels, yet the original verse pictures a highway through the desert for exiles heading home.
Q 09Which six-winged heavenly beings does Isaiah 6 describe calling to one another above the throne of God?
Seraphim
Seraphim flew with only two of their wings: Isaiah says each kept another pair over its face.
Q 10Which title ends the list of names Isaiah 9:6 gives the child with the government on his shoulder?
Prince of Peace
Prince of Peace comes after Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God and Everlasting Father, and the next verse seats this ruler on the throne of David.
Q 11In Isaiah 6, what does a winged being take from the altar with tongs and touch to Isaiah's mouth?
A live coal
A live coal touched his lips, and the being declared his guilt taken away, answering Isaiah's fear that he was a man of unclean lips.
Q 12Isaiah 6 dates the prophet's vision of God enthroned in the temple to the death of which king of Judah?
Uzziah
Uzziah had reigned for 52 years, and in the vision that followed his death the train of God's robe alone was enough to fill the temple.
Q 13In Isaiah 38, a poultice made from which fruit is laid on the boil of the dying King Hezekiah?
Figs
Figs were Isaiah's remedy, and Hezekiah recovered to enjoy the fifteen extra years that God had just promised him.
Q 21Which word, said twice in a row, opens Isaiah 40 and the section often called Second Isaiah?
Comfort
Comfort is the first word, and the next verse tells Jerusalem that her hard service is over and her guilt has been pardoned.
Q 22Isaiah 40:22 pictures God enthroned above the circle of the earth, its people looking like which insects?
Grasshoppers
Grasshoppers is the comparison, and the same verse has God stretching out the heavens like a curtain and spreading them like a tent to dwell in.
Q 23In Isaiah 40:15, the nations are said to be like what to God?
A drop in a bucket
A drop in a bucket comes straight from this verse, which also weighs the nations as a speck of dust on the scales.
Q 14As a three-year sign against Egypt and Cush, how does Isaiah 20 say the prophet Isaiah walked about?
Naked and barefoot
Naked and barefoot was how Assyria would march its Egyptian captives away, the chapter explains, so Isaiah acted out the warning in advance.
Q 15In the song that opens Isaiah 5, Israel is pictured as what, fenced and cleared of stones by its owner?
A vineyard
A vineyard is the picture, and despite all the care it yielded only wild fruit, so the owner vows to break down its wall.
Q 16Isaiah 11 promises a shoot from the stump of which Bethlehem man, whose youngest son became king?
Jesse
Jesse stands for David's royal line cut down to a stump, and the chapter says the spirit of the Lord will rest on the new growth.
Q 17Isaiah 9 promises a great light for people walking in darkness in which region, where Jesus later preached?
Galilee
Galilee is named beside the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali, and Matthew's Gospel quotes the passage as Jesus begins his ministry there.
Q 18When God asks who will go for him in Isaiah 6:8, Isaiah's reply ends with which two-word offer?
Send me
Send me was the reply, yet the mission that followed was bleak: Isaiah was told the people would hear without understanding.
Q 19Which Assyrian king besieges Jerusalem in Isaiah 36 and 37, only to lose his army overnight?
Sennacherib
Sennacherib went home to Nineveh after an angel struck down 185,000 of his soldiers, and two of his own sons later killed him as he worshipped.
Q 20Isaiah 1:1 names which man, often confused with a shepherd prophet, as the father of Isaiah?
Amoz
Amoz appears in the Bible only as Isaiah's father, and rabbinic tradition made him a brother of King Amaziah of Judah.
Q 24In Isaiah 42:3, the servant of the Lord is said to be so gentle that he will not break what?
A bruised reed
A bruised reed is safe with him, and neither will he put out a smouldering wick; Matthew's Gospel applies both images to Jesus.
Q 25In Isaiah 49:16, where does God say he has engraved Zion so that he can never forget her?
On his palms
On his palms is the answer, given just after God asks whether a nursing mother could forget her baby and says that even she might.
Q 26Isaiah 52:7 calls which body part beautiful on the mountains when it belongs to a bringer of good news?
Feet
Feet earn the praise because they carry the messenger running to tell Zion that her God reigns, and Paul quotes the line in Romans 10.
Q 27Which title does Isaiah 53:3 give the despised and rejected servant?
Man of sorrows
Man of sorrows is the phrase, and the verse adds that people hid their faces from him and held him in low esteem.
Q 28According to Isaiah 53:5, what happens to us by the stripes of the suffering servant?
We are healed
We are healed, the verse says, by the wounds of one pierced for the wrongs of others, and 1 Peter quotes the line about Jesus.
Q 29According to Isaiah 53:9, the servant assigned a grave with the wicked is with whom in his death?
A rich man
A rich man shares his death, a detail Christians connect with the wealthy disciple who laid the body of Jesus in his own new tomb.
Q 30According to Isaiah 55:1, people without money are invited to come and buy wine and which other drink?
Milk
Milk and wine are free to all who come, and the chapter goes on to ask why people spend their wages on what is not bread.