有些解经家相信，当时犹大国有很多人包括以赛亚在内，都将希望和期盼寄放在乌西雅王的身上，所以乌西雅王的死令他们感到沮丧。一位现代的解经家比喻当时的情况就像1963年美国甘迺迪总统被行刺时让世界震惊的情况一样。

如果以赛亚将犹大灵性存活的盼望寄托在乌西雅而不是在神身上，我们便很容易明白，当他听到乌西雅王的死讯时感到多么失望和消沉。也许他是在看到躺在棺材里面的王是多么无能为力时，才打算将自己的目光投向坐在永恒宝座上的那一位。我们多么需要学习一个严肃的教训：我们的信靠必须总是放在神身上，否则神会将我们脚下的支柱除去──不是祂因为我们对祂缺乏信心而愤怒，而是祂知道除非我们完全倚靠祂，否则我们不能有效地行动。

我在想，此时此刻在我们的读者群里，是否有人在过去一年中，脚下的支柱真的被除去、失去了你长期以来所倚靠的东西？如果是这样的话，请听我说：神不是对你生气，祂只是希望你肯将重担完全卸放在祂跟前。我们也许可以这么说，你要看到在地上的保障躺在棺材内，然后才能够看到坐在宝座上那一位的荣耀。

Some commentators believe that many in the nation at that time, including Isaiah, had allowed their hopes and expectations for Judah to become so entwined around King Uzziah that when he died they were filled with despair. One modern-day commentator compares it to the shock that reverberated around the world when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

If Isaiah had been pinning his hopes for the spiritual survival of Judah on Uzziah rather than on God then it is easy to see how disappointed and disillusioned he would have become on hearing that King Uzziah had died. Perhaps it wasn't until he came to recognise the impotency of the one who lay in the coffin that he was prepared to lift his eyes to gaze at the One who sat on the eternal throne. How we need to learn the solemn lesson that our trust must always be in God. If it isn't, then God will knock the props out from beneath our feet, not because He is angry at our lack of confidence in Him but because He knows we cannot function effectively unless we fully dependent on Him.

I wonder, am I talking to someone right now who over the past year has had the props knocked from beneath their feet? The things you have depended on for so long are no longer there. Then listen to me: God is not angry with you. He just wants you to rest your weight fully on Him. You may have to be willing to see your earthly securities laid in a coffin, so to speak, before you can see the glory of the One who sits upon the throne.