Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 12:1-6
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 deliverance of the Hebrews at the Exodus. As a song of praise (Exodus 15) celebrates the destruction of the Egyptians at the Red Sea, so two brief songs ( Isaiah 12:1-Leviticus :, Isaiah 12:4-Joshua :) are inserted here, which have close points of contact with Exodus 15 and some Pss., especially... read more
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 12:1-2
‘And in that day you will say, I will give thanks to you, O Yahweh, For although you were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And you comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and will not be afraid, For Yah Yahweh is my strength and my song, And he is become my salvation.’ The hymn is first of all a song of thanksgiving that Yahweh’s anger has been turned away from them, even though they recognise that they have deserved it. Thus instead of visiting them in anger and judgment... read more