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1 In that day you will say: "I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.
2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation."
3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
4 In that day you will say: "Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.
5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.
6 Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."
All six verses are exported to Revised Chapter 8; they anticipate the joy of the people on witnessing the Lord's rout of the Assyrians (2 Kings 19:32-36).
1-3. In that day you will say: "I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. 2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." 3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Analysis: "Although you were angry with me" implies that the Lord was angry when these prophetic verses were written. The first visible manifestation of the Lord's anger was the successive incursions by Arameans and Philistines during the reign of Ahaz (Isaiah 9:12) as a consequence of the king's backsliding (2 Kings 16:1-4). A latter motive for the Lord's anger was when "this people" rejoiced over the fate of Rezin king of Aram and Pekah king of Samaria (Isaiah 8:5-8). Rezin had been executed by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 16:9) and Pekah was murdered by Hoshea son of Elah (2 Kings 15:30). There was no salvation of the Lord throughout the reign of Ahaz. His salvation tarried until the reign of Hezekiah son of Ahaz (2 Kings 19:32-36). Consequently verses 1-3 appertain to the second motive for the Lord's anger. This anger was made visible in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:13) and so was his salvation.
Destination: Revised Chapter 8, "Assyria Will Invade Judah."
4-6. In that day you will say: "Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. 5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. 6 Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."
Analysis: The sentence, "Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things," (v 5) can tag the miraculous deliverance of Jerusalem from the Assyrians or Hezekiah's miraculous recovery from illness (Isaiah, chapter 38). However the clauses, "make known among the nations what he has done" and "let this be known to all the world," tag preferably the Lord's spectacular delivery of Jerusalem (Isaiah 33:13). This plus the repetition of the formula, "In that day," couples verses 4-6 with verses 1-3.
Remark: The clause, "great is the Holy One of Israel among you," (v 6) clarifies the object of the moniker, "Immanuel," (Isaiah 7:14, 8:8).
Destination: Revised Chapter 8, "Assyria Will Invade Judah."
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