In Isaiah chapter six, verse one, “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.” The time King Uzziah died is in Second Chronicles twenty-six, verses sixteen through twenty-one. Although Isaiah may have prophesied earlier in chapters one to five, he now received a vision from God, was cleansed, and given a specific commission to proclaim the word of the Lord to a spiritually blind, deaf, and insensitive people, as in chapters nine through ten.
This vision gives Isaiah a proper understanding of his message and calling. It revealed one of this book’s major concerns, namely, that God’s glory, majesty, and holiness demand that those who serve Him also must be holy.
Churches today likewise need a vision of God as holy in their midst, the King and Judge, the Lord of Hosts, as in verses three and five of this theme chapter. The recognition of the need for His sanctifying work in our lives will eventually accompany such a vision; the result could well be similar to that of Isaiah: earnest confession, glorious cleansing, and powerful commissioning by God to His will and call, as in verses five through eight, and Revelation one, verses thirteen to seventeen.
This verse has a song sung in churches that is part of the theme verse:
I saw the Lord,
I saw the Lord
He was high and lifted up
And His twain filled the temple
He was high and lifted up
And His twain filled the temple
The Angels cry holy
The Angels cry holy
The Angels cry holy is the Lord.
The song does not seem to relate to what happened to King Uzziah, but holiness had something to do with it.