常见问题
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.
The line the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song closely echoes Moses's song after the Red Sea in Exodus 15:2, and the drawing of water from the wells of salvation gives way to the darker burden of Isaiah 13.
