Isaiah 12 answers the promises of the previous chapters with a compact song of gratitude, moving from remembered anger to restored comfort and confident trust in God as salvation. The chapter calls God's people to draw joyfully from salvation's springs, to make His deeds known among the nations, and to sing because the Holy One of Israel is present in Zion with great majesty.
This chapter functions like a liturgical bridge between Isaiah's early judgments and the wider oracles that follow, teaching the proper response to God's saving work. It gathers the themes of wrath turned away, salvation received, public praise, and Zion-centered joy into a communal confession that turns prophecy into worship.
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I1n that day you will say: 2Surely God is my salvation;
3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, 4and on that day you will say:
5Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things. 6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion,
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