The Strand Study Bible

ISAIAH 11:5

ISAIAH 12:3

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5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of 1 HIS loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. P 6 1 The wolf also shall 2 dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. P 7 1 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. P 8 1 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. P 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: 1 for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. P 10 And 1 in that day 3 there shall be a 4 ROOT OF JESSE , which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gen- tiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. P 11 1 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the 5 remnant of his people, which shall be left, 6 from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. P 12 1 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dis- persed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. P 13 1 The envy also of Ephraim shall de-

part, and the adversaries of Judah shall be- cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. P 14 1 But they shall fly upon the shoul- ders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. P 15 1 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the 7 Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the 8 seven streams, and make men go over 9 dryshod. P 16 1 And there shall be an 10 highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; 11 like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. P Isaiah 12 Isaiah’s song of praise in anticipation of CHRIST’S Kingdom Date Written - c. 732 BC/AM 3268 1 6 And in that DAY thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. P 2 1 Behold, 12 God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my 13 strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. P 3 1 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. P

1. Fulfilled - Rev 20:4,6 (Christ’s Kingdom) 2. Hos 2:18 & Ezk 34:25 & Isa 35:9 & 65:25 3. Quoted in the NT - Rom 15:12 4. Isa 4:2 & 11:1 & 53:2 & Jere 23:5 & 33:15 & Zech 3:8 & 6:12 5. Jere 31:1-7 & Joel 2:32 & Mic 4:6-7 6. Hos 11:11 & Zech 10:10 & Isa 19:23-25 7. or, “the Red Sea” 8. or, “the Euphrates River” 9. or, “on dry land” 12. Lk 2:11 & Titus 1:3-4 & 2:10,13 & 3:4,6 & II Pet 1:1, 11 & 2:20 & 3:2,18 13. Exo 15:2 10. Isa 19:23 11. Exo 14:29

11:11 The first time God re-gathered His people was under Zerubbabel’s leadership in 536 BC, when He allowed Israel to return to Jerusalem after their seventy-year captivity in Babylon (Ezra 1:1-3). The “ second time ” will be when Christ returns at His Second Coming in order to set up His 1000-year Millennial Kingdom (Rev 19:11-20:6). 12:1a Isaiah goes from prophet to psalmist here ( I will praise thee ), and the hymn that follows is much like the hymn Moses constructed in Exodus 15. It is a hymn of praise in anticipation of CHRIST’S Kingdom. 12:1b Isaiah 12 serves as a dramatic climax to the first eleven chapters. God’s wrath is no longer directed towards Israel, but is “ turned away ” due to the return of CHRIST . 12:3 In his psalm of praise, Isaiah takes a page out of the book of Leviticus (chapter 23) and refers to a ritual that is performed during the Feast of Tabernacles ( Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation - Lev 23:33-44/Jn 7:37-39). The Feast of Tabernacles (also called, the Feast of Ingathering - Exo 23:16) ran for 8 days, from the 15 th to the 22 nd of Tishri (the 7 th month; October). The Israelites were to observe a Sabbath of rest three times during this 8-day period (once on the 15 th , once on the Saturday Sabbath, and once on the 22 nd ) in which no work could be done, except the work of the priests. This Feast was given to Israel to celebrate God’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage. Each year during this Feast the Israelites would prepare small booths (or, tabernacles; tents), in which to dwell outdoors. It commemorated their dwelling in tents in the wilderness on the way to the Promised Land. During the feast, the priests would go in solemn procession with music to a source of water (in Jesus’ day –the pool of Siloam), fill a quart size golden vase with water, carry it back to the Temple amid the joyful cheers of the people, and pour it out on the western side of the brazen altar as the people chanted Psalms 113-118. At the same time, another priest would pour a drink offering of wine on the eastern side of the altar. This was done yearly during the Feast of Tabernacles to remind God’s people of how He supplied them with life-saving water ( Exo 14:21 ) and joy during their forty-year wilderness wanderings. This Feast was also intended to remind the people of God what Christ would do for Israel concerning their future as a nation during the Millennium.