Isaiah 12
Matthew Poole's English Annotations 6 verses
Isaiah 12:1
Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation My Salvation has not been brought to pass by Man, but by the Almighty Power of God.: I will trust, and not be afraid; for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, he also is become my salvation.
Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation Your thirsty and fainting Souls shall be filled with Divine Graces and Comforts, which you may plentifully draw from God, in the use of Gospel-Ordinances, which was oft signified by water, both in the Old and in the New Testament. He seems to allude to the State of Israel in the Wilderness, where when they had been tormented with Thirst, they were greatly refreshed and delighted with those Waters which God so graciously and wonderftlly afforded them in that d... y and barren Land, Numb. 20. 11. & 21. 16, 17, 18..
Isaiah 12:4
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people In all the earth, as it follows v. 5. unto the Gentileworld, who shall partake in the Blessing, and will joyn with you in the praising of God for it., make mention that his name is exalted.
Isaiah 12:5
Sing unto the LORD, for he has done excellent things: this is known in all the earth The Knowledge of this glorious Work of our Redemption by the Messiah shall no longer be confined to Israel's Land, as it hitherto has been; but shall reach to all Nations..
Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
AND in that day When this great Work of the Reduction of God's Israel, and of the Conversion of the Gentiles, promised in the foregoing Chapter, shall be fulfilled. thou shalt say, O LORD I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me.