Frequently Asked Questions
What's this short chapter, Isaiah 12, about?
It's a brief thanksgiving song responding to the earlier judgment and hope oracles, declaring that God's anger has turned to comfort and calling people to praise him and "draw water out of the wells of salvation" (v1-3).
What does 'the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song' mean in verse 2?
It's a declaration of trust in God as both protector and source of joy, worded almost identically to Moses's song after the Red Sea crossing at Exodus 15:2.
What does 'draw water out of the wells of salvation' mean in verse 3?
It's a joyful image of drawing on God's salvation the way one draws water from a well - the only place in the chapter this specific phrase appears, without further explanation given.
Today's Verse
but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:
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