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Isaiah 12:4-6

The members of the redeemed community exhort each other to publish the praises of Jehovah to the world.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 12:4. _CALL UPON HIS NAME_] קראו בשמו _kiru bishmo, invoke his_ _name_. Make him your _Mediator_, or _call_ the people _in his name_. Preach him who is the _Root of Jesse_, and _who stand...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND IN THAT DAY - (see Isaiah 12:1). CALL UPON HIS NAME - Margin, ‘Proclaim.’ It denotes to call upon him in the way of celebrating his praise. The whole hymn is one of praise, and not of prayer. DEC...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 12 Israel's Salvation Hymn 1. _When Israel will sing (Isaiah 12:1)_ 2. _What Israel will sing (Isaiah 12:2)_ 3. _To whom Israel will sing (Isaiah 12:4)_ 4. The Holy One in the midst ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 12. SONGS OF THANKSGIVING. This is a late appendix to the preceding. It is imitative throughout and copies late passages. Isaiah 11:16 compares Israel's return from the Dispersion with the deli...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PEOPLE. peoples. EXALTED. Compare Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:17, "in that day"....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 881 THE BELIEVER’S SONG Isaiah 12:3. With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THAT DAY THOU SHALT SAY— Isaiah concludes this most noble prophesy, with a eucharistic doxology from the mouth of those who would share in the blessings of the great redemption before specified. Th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER TWELVE F. PRAISE FOR IMMANUEL TEXT: Isaiah 12:1-6 1 And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. MAKE MENTION - Hebrew, cause it to be remembered....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. The thanksgiving that now follows is the counterpart of the hymn of praise sung after the passage of the Red Sea (Exodus 15), and is partly based upon it. Some scholars doubt its Isaianic authorshi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    To tell other people about one’s own experience of God is a great way to praise him. LORD ~ God’s name in the Bible. In the original language, God’s names mean ‘head over all’ and ‘God always’.' ISA...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 12 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 On the day that you are free, you will s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DECLARE HIS DOINGS AMONG THE PEOPLE. — Literally, _among the peoples._ The prophet quotes from the hymn which had been sung when the Ark was placed in Zion (1 Chronicles 16:8), and in part from Psalms...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲמַרְתֶּ֞ם בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֗וּא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER X THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN MAN AND THE ANIMALS ABOUT 720 B.C. Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 12:1 BENEATH the crash of the Assyrian with which the tenth chapter closes, we pass out into the eleventh upon...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SONG OF THANKSGIVING Isaiah 11:10-16; Isaiah 12:1-6 The prophet's vision extends. He has seen the effect of redemption, as it emanates from Jesus Christ, upon the whole physical creation; now he be...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the songs of the people concerning the deliverances wrought by the victories of Jehovah. The first celebrates the personal blessings of the day described, while the second sets forth the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the whole Church is supposed as engaged in this hymn of praise. In the former part, it was the song of one: I will praise thee. In this, it is, Praise ye the Lord. And they are not only praising...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._And in that day shall ye say. _He now exhorts them not only to sing praise and give thanks to God individually, but to excite others to do the same. As he had formerly said, _Many people shall go a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IN THAT DAY SHALL YE SAY, PRAISE THE LORD,.... On account of his being and perfections, for blessings received from him, especially spiritual ones; and particularly such as are before mentioned, fulne...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. Ver. 4. _And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord,_...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In that day ye shall say_, &c. Here we have the second part of the evangelical song, the subject of which, as of the former, is the praise of God. In the former part, believers stir up themselves to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And In that day, while enjoying the fullness of the redemption, SHALL YE SAY, the prophet here addressing all the members of the Church of Christ, PRAISE THE LORD, CALL UPON HIS NAME, loudly proclaimi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL'S SONG OF ITS REDEMPTION....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CALL UPON HIS NAME: Or, proclaim his name...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Among the people; in all the earth, as it follows, ISAIAH 12:5; unto the Gentile world, who shall partake in the blessing, and will join with you in the praising of God for it. The knowledge of this g...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 12:4 day H3117 say H559 (H8804) Praise H3034 (H8685) LORD H3068 call H7121 (H8798) name...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And in that day you will say, Give thanks to Yahweh, Call on his name, Declare his doings among the peoples, Make mention that his name is exalted.' Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent thi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The worship of the coming Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: When Jesus comes to set up His Kingdom, God's regathered people Israel and all the redeemed, shall as one man, with one mind...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 12:2. _JEHOVAH is my strength._ Lowth reads, Lord, as in the English; but in the Hebrew book, _Sepher Ikkarim,_ we read, “The scriptures call the Messiah JAH or JAOH, our righteousness; indicat...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord_ CONGREGATIONAL PRAISE I. WHO ARE HERE CALLED UPON TO PRAISE GOD. The inhabitants of Zion and Jerusalem, whom God had in a peculiar manner protected fro...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 12:4 God’s salvation flows out to THE PEOPLES through the witness of Israel. The message is HIS NAME, that is, who God has revealed himself to be (see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE KING AND OF HIS KINGDOM Chapter S 11 AND 12 This is one of the visions that Isaiah _saw_ (chap. Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, &c.). He was a dreamer of dreams. With a keen perception,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 12:1 THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING OF THE UNITED CHURCH. On each of her deliverances the Church is hound to praise God. In some parts of the Church it is customary on every such occasion...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And in that day (Isaiah 12:1). This day of the Lord when He returns and establishes His kingdom. thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned awa...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 16:8; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Exodus 15:2; Exodus 33:19;...

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