1 In that day you will say,I praise you, O Jehovah.Although you have been angry with me,your anger is turned awayand you have consoled me.
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2 Ina the God of my salvation I will trust without fear;for Jehovah was my strength and bmy songbwhen he became my salvation.
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3 Then shall you rejoice in drawing waterfrom the fountains of salvation.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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4 In that day you will say,Give thanks to Jehovah; invoke his name.Make known his deeds among the nations;commemorate his exalted name.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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5 Sing in praise of Jehovah,who has performed wonders;let it be acknowledged throughout the earth!
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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6 Shout and sing for joy, O inhabitants of Zion,for renowned among you is the Holy One of Israel.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people by delivering them spiritually from their sins and temporally from their enemies.
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Apocalyptic Commentary
Isaiah 12
In the act of destroying the wicked in his Day of Judgment, Jehovah delivers the righteous. Like the Songs of Salvation Moses and the Israelites sang after their exodus out of Egypt (Exodus 15:1-21), two Songs of Salvation—one individual (vv 1-3), the other collective (vv 4-6)—follow the exodus of Jehovah’s people to Zion. At such times, spontaneous praise erupts from the hearts of those whom Jehovah saves. Though they may feel his anger for a season because of their transgressions—as he allows the king of Assyria/Babylon to subject them—when they repent Jehovah turns his anger away.
To trust in Jehovah “without fear” even when the odds of deliverance appear hopeless (Isaiah 35:3-4) forms a divine principle that separates those saved from those destroyed: “In that day you will say, ‘This is our God, whom we expected would save us. This is Jehovah for whom we have waited; let us joyfully celebrate his salvation!’” (Isaiah 25:9; emphasis added). As Jehovah personifies his people’s salvation, and as he embodies the living waters that regenerate them (Jeremiah 17:13-14; John 4:10-14), his people’s songs of faith when times are hard turn into songs of joy when salvation happens.
In a twin Song of Salvation, the remnant of Jehovah’s people that returns from exile (Isaiah 11:10-16) praises Jehovah at his marvelous deliverance. Just as the fame of Israel’s God spread among the nations when he delivered his people from bondage in Egypt and brought them to the Promised Land (Joshua 9:9), so his fame spreads among the peoples who didn’t participate in the exodus to Zion but who survive Jehovah’s Day of Judgment: “O Jehovah, you are my God; I will extol you by praising your name. For with perfect faithfulness you have performed wonders, things planned of old” (Isaiah 25:1).
After the trial of their faith, Jehovah’s holy ones rejoice at the presence of Jehovah, Israel’s Holy One, when he dwells with them in Zion. For those who repent of transgression, who return to Zion in an exodus out of a world self-destructing, sorrow turns to joy: “Let the ransomed of Jehovah return! Let them come singing to Zion, their heads crowned with everlasting joy; let them obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing flee away” (Isaiah 51:11). Indeed, joy and rejoicing most characterize Jehovah’s millennial reign (Isaiah 9:3; 29:19; 30:29; 51:3; 60:15; 61:7, 10; 65:13, 18-19; 66:10-14).