Isaiah 12:1 - Exposition

In that day . In the day of deliverance and restoration. Though thou wast angry ; literally, because thou wast angry . Kay understands an actual hank-fullness for the severe discipline, which had checked them, and not allowed them to glide on smoothly to ruin. But perhaps the idiom is rather that of the passage, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes" ( Matthew 11:25 ), where it is only the last clause that expresses the true object of the thanksgiving. Comfortedst ; rather, hast comforted , since the effect continued.