“Go to the pottery shop, and when you get there, I will tell you what to say to the people.”
About this same time the LORD had told me, “Isaiah, take off everything, including your sandals!” I did this and went around naked and barefoot
The LORD told me, “Go and buy a pair of linen shorts. Wear them for a while, but don't wash them.”
The LORD told me,
I went there and saw the potter making clay pots on his pottery wheel.
If they had been in a meeting of my council in heaven, they would have told you people of Judah to give up your sins and come back to me.
The LORD showed me a vision of himself standing beside a wall and holding a string with a weight tied to the end of it. The string and weight had been used to measure the straightness of the wall.
Now get up and go into the city, where you will be told what to do.”
Long ago in many ways and at many times God's prophets spoke his message to our ancestors.