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Isaiah 12 Bible study: The wells of salvation
Five times a refrain said, "his anger is not turned away" (9:17). The song of chapter 12 answers in the same Hebrew words, "your anger has turned away and you comfort me" (12:1), and at its heart it sings the words Israel sang after the sea: "my strength and song; and he has become my salvation" (12:2).
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“Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
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“In Isaiah 12:1, the one singing says the LORD's anger has turned away.”
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What's really going on
The anger that turned away
In the chapters before this one, a refrain closes word after word of judgment: "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still" (9:17, 9:21, 10:4), and in almost the same words at 5:25 and 9:12. Here is what almost everyone misses: the song of chapter 12 begins, "I will give thanks to you, the LORD; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me" (12:1) (tap anger, comfort). In Hebrew the refrain's "his anger is not turned away" is lo shav appo, and the song's "your anger has turned away" is yashov appekha: the same verb, shuv, and the same noun, af. Five times the refrain said his anger had not turned away (5:25, 9:12, 9:17, 9:21, 10:4); the song says it has. The song doesn't say how. Chapter 10 had already told "My people who dwell in Zion" (10:24), "For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction" (10:25).
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- After the sea, a song
- One voice, then many, then Zion
- The same call in a psalm
- The Holy One of Israel, great among you
- Cry aloud, twice
- 5 questions as you read
- 14 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
יְשׁוּעָהyeshu'ahsay ye-shoo-AH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "salvation" and "deliverance". Strong's: "something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance". It comes three times in two verses: "Behold, God is my salvation" (12:2), "he has become my salvation" (12:2), and "the wells of salvation" (12:3). Isaiah has it 19 times in Hebrew, and these are the first three. The next is in another "in that day": "It shall be said in that day" (Isaiah 25:9), "We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" (Isaiah 25:9). The chapter on Exodus 15 follows the word back to the sea.
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Isaiah 12 Bible study questions
- 1Five times a refrain in Isaiah said, "his anger is not turned away" (9:17); then the song says, "your anger has turned away and you comfort me" (12:1). What changes in the way you pray when you start from that line?
- 2"I will trust, and will not be afraid" (12:2). What is one fear you would like to hand over for trust this week?
- 3"Declare his doings among the peoples!" (12:4). What has God done for you that the people around you have never heard you tell?
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