Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
6. Cry out ] the same word as in ch. Isa 10:30, but in a very different sense. Cf. ch. Isa 24:14, Isa 54:1.
inhabitant of Zion ] Lit. “inhabitress,” Jerusalem being personified as a woman, Mic 1:11-15; Jer 46:19, &c.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Cry out – ( tsahaly). This word is usually applied to the neighing of a horse Jer 5:8; Jer 8:16. It is also used to express joy, pleasure, exultation, by a clear and loud sound of the voice Isa 10:30; Isa 12:6; Isa 14:14; Isa 54:1; Jer 31:7; Jer 50:11. It is here synonymous with the numerous passages in the Psalms, and elsewhere, where the people of God are called on to exult, to shout, to make a noise as expressive of their joy Psa 47:1; Psa 148:1-14; Psa 149:1-9; Isa 42:11; Isa 44:23; Jer 31:7; Zep 3:14; Zec 9:9.
And shout – ( varony). This word properly means to cry aloud Pro 1:20; Pro 8:3; to cry for help Lam 2:19; to raise a shout of joy, to rejoice, or exult Lev 9:24; Job 38:7; to praise, or celebrate with joy Psa 33:1; Psa 51:15; Psa 59:17; Psa 89:13. Here it denotes the joy in view of Gods mercies, which leads to songs of exalted praise.
Thou inhabitant of Zion – Thou that dwellest in Zion; that is, thou who art numbered with the people of God (note, Isa 1:8). The margin here is in accordance with the Hebrew – Inhabitress of Zion; and the word used here is applicable to the people, rather than to an individual.
For great is the Holy One of Israel – That is, God has shown himself great and worthy of praise, by the wonderful deliverance which he has worked for his people. Thus closes this beautiful hymn. It is worthy of the theme – worth to be sung by all. O, may all the redeemed join in this song of deliverance; and may the time soon come, when the beautiful vision of the poet shall be realized, in the triumphant song of redemption echoing around the world:
One song employs all nations; and all cry,
Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!
The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks
Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops
From distant mountains catch the flying joy;
Till, nation after nation taught the strain,
Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
The Task Book vi.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Isa 12:6
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion
Rapturous enthusiasm should characterise religion
Here is a call for enthusiasm, rapture, and what would generally be denominated madness.
Still, the words are here, and they are perfectly clear as to their meaning and purpose, and a reason is given for the cry and for the shout; that reason is–for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. Men have been infuriated by earthly deliverances, and rightly so, and brought into paroxysms of thankfulness and joy why not so in their religious natures? It is recorded by Plutarch that when the Romans delivered a certain people from the tyranny of the Macedonians and the Spartans, the cry of the delivered men was so great that it dissipated the very air, and birds flying across that plane of the hemisphere fell down amazed. Have we ever rent the air with our cries and shouts of delight and thankfulness? Our Christianity may have been formal, and our atheism may have been the atheism of respectability. Respectability can never be earnest. It is limited by a smaller word. If Sydney Smith said the Church is dying of dignity, we may apply the rebuke to ourselves, and ask if we are not falling into torpor through the opiate of respectability. Are we called to silence? Who can describe the feeling of those who were imprisoned during the Indian Mutiny? Is there not a page in the history of that rebellion which makes every human heart thrill with excitement? We remember how the Europeans were shut up, being beleaguered and invested, and within a hand breadth of extinction; and we remember hearing of the deliverers approach, and of those who were suffering catching the strains of music; they heard the pibroch and the slogan, and their hearts came again, and every soldier was a hero, and every woman a saint, and as the deliverers came on could you have said to those who had been shut up in terror and darkness, Now restrain yourselves; avoid everything sensational, and maintain a decorous and proper attitude in all things–what answer would they have returned to your inane and unseasonable address? We must pass through a certain class of circumstances before we can understand the feelings of those who express gratitude for deliverance. The singing of the Church should be loud, joyous, and sweet; all instruments should accompany it now the clash of bells, now the blare of trumpets, now the lilt of lutes, and now the throb of drums; strong men, gentle women, merry children should unite their voices in one glad burst of religious joy. Thank God for music. That will unite the Church when theology will divide it. There is no disputable argument in music. The vanity of opinion is not touched by music. The demon of heresy is left without a chance in music. Pedantic criticism is ignored. The heart has it all its own way. All is harmony. All is praise. All is love. If ever preaching be displaced or superseded, may it be by music! (J. Parker, D. D.)
Thou inhabitant of Zion
The Hebrew is feminine: the appeal is to a womans heart–Cry out and shout, thou daughter of Zion! Without the womanly element the Church is without charm, and without the Divinest passion. The woman must lead us, in song, in music, in praise, and by the contagion of her enthusiasm must warm others into responsive and cooperative zeal. (J. Parker, D. D.)
Gods precede with His people
Among the ancient people of God, Jehovah vouchsafed His immediate and manifest presence, both in the continuance of His visible glory between the cherubim, and, upon extraordinary occasions, in an extraordinary manner. Such miraculous indications of the Divine presence are not to be expected in these latter days. Now that God has blessed us with a revelation, so clear, so completely suited to our necessities, and in all its doctrines and precepts so manifestly Divine, that our own consciences cannot but acknowledge it as the truth, He has withdrawn those miraculous tokens of His favour by which He upheld the confidence of His ancient people, requiring us to walk by faith and not by sight. The glory of the spiritual Zion does not consist in outward manifestations of the Godhead, but in the real though invisible presence of the King of Zion, according to His gracious promise, Lo, I am with you alway. He is present by His Spirit in the hearts of all His faithful followers. What is implied in this promise of the Holy One of Israel in the midst of Zion?
1. That God is ever with His people to strengthen and sustain them.
2. God, through Christ, is ever present with His people, to succour and defend them.
3. Jehovah is ever present with His people to lead and direct them.
4. God is ever with His people to comfort them.
5. Jehovah is ever present with His people to command a blessing upon the appointed means of His grace. Without this, the Scriptures are a dead letter. (W. Ramsay.)
The Church of the living God
Civilised countries have many institutions of a voluntary kind for useful purposes. There is, however, an institution in the world, where men are laid under direct obligation to Him who has established the institution, namely, the Church of God, in relation to which the earnest appeal in the text is made.
I. THIS CHURCH PRESENTS TO US THE WAY, UNDER GODS HAND, TO TRUE PERSONAL GOODNESS. Men devise many recipes to correct evils and excite to virtue. But Zion accomplishes all these results by one simple method. To be in the Church of God is to be in the way of all goodness. Well may the inhabitants of Zion rejoice, for all spiritual blessings of Gods kingdom are given to it.
II. Another logical conclusion follows, namely, that ALL OF US OUGHT TO BE IN THAT ZION. We are to be in it, not because the Church itself demands it; not because the minister calls for it; not because the influences around us have inculcated it. We are to belong to the Church because God, who founded the Church and created us, has laid this obligation upon us. And we are not to be simply visitors to His Church, or occasional attendants, and especially not to be patrons. We are to be inhabitants, dwelling in it; being in it with our whole souls, and complying with the obligations that are incumbent upon its inhabitants, if we would be pure men. And this is no unreasonable command.
1. The way in which the word came is both significant and instructive.
2. Another consideration is that, Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of her. That is the culminating and crowning glory of Gods Zion.
Practical reflections–
1. We must see that this Zion is a home of great dignity. It is more than a home, it is Gods kingdom.
2. If this be Gods Zion, then what have we to do to be in His Zion and to feel the pleasures incumbent upon members of His Zion? We are to obey Him. It is His presence, His power, His relation to us, that give sanctity to Gods house and service.
3. Let me speak a word to any who are without God and without hope of eternal life. This King summons you from rebellion; He summons you to peace and goodwill to Him. (J. Hall, D. D.)
The character, privilege, and duty of the people of God
I. THE CHARACTER here given of the people of God, couched in Old Testament language, in that they are called inhabitants of Zion. To understand the meaning of the words, inhabitant of Zion, as describing the people of God in every age, we should first remember that Zion was literally a hill in the land of Judea. There was a hill in the southern part of the promised land, on which, or on part of which, the city of Jerusalem was built, and this hill had two peaks, the one called Zion proper, and the other called Mount Moriah, and while Jerusalem stood on one of these peaks, or Zion proper, the temple was built by appointment on the other of these peaks, or Mount Moriah, but the whole together was called the hill of Zion, of Mount Zion, and accordingly in the 2 nd Psalm we read, Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion, and again, Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth; is Mount Zion, plainly showing that this was a hill in the land of Judea. But, as I have said, on one peak or top of this hill the temple of Solomon was placed, and hence the word Zion came by a common figure of speech to be transferred from the mountain to the temple, the most prominent feature on the mountain, and in this sense I think we have it in the 87 th Psalm, The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Understanding, then, by the word Zion the temple, an inhabitant of Zion now calls up the idea of a person who lives in and about the temple; and, indeed, the will of God was, that all His ancient people should live as much as may be in and about the temple. But we must remember that the temple was intended to be a type of the human nature of our Lord, or of God in our nature (Joh 2:19-21). An inhabitant of Zion is one who is much versant with Christ.
II. THE PRIVILEGE connected with this character. Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. The Holy One of Israel, or the God that went out and in among the people of Israel, the God that brought them out of the land of Egypt, and through a variety of vicissitudes landed them at last in the Canaan of promise, was no other than the Lord Jesus Christ 1Co 10:9). But it is particularly the privilege of all the inhabitants of Zion, that they have the protection of Him at all times who is the Almighty, and who is, therefore, able to prevail against all opposition. Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. These last words convey the idea of a garrison, which, being in the very centre of a place fortified, contains armed men ready to run out from this central point, whenever they are called or required. So Christ, the Holy One, is in the midst of the Church, in the midst of the believer individually, because quite prepared to run out to any point where His people are weak and unprotected. If any of Gods people be poor in this world, they need not have recourse to unlawful methods to secure for them and their families bread to eat, and raiment to put on, for their Heavenly Father knows they need these things, and He will give them to them, in the use of the lawful means put in their power. It intimates God reconciled in Christ to provide for their souls. He will provide for them the means of grace. But once more, it makes part of the privilege of Gods people, that they are to see the greatness of the glory of God ultimately. Now God says that the very greatness of His glory shines out in the work of redemption–that there is more of that great invisible God brought out to intelligent creatures, by the work of redemption, than by any work which God created.
III. THE DUTY that God expects of His people, in consequence of their understanding this. Cry out and shout. And here we are taught–
1. That courage is our duty–boldness. Cry out and shout. Why? Because there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.
2. Cheerfulness.
3. Holding forth the Word of life.
Concluding remarks–
1. How very far below their privilege do some professing Christians live!
2. Privilege always goes before duty.
3. The words are spoken to individuals. (J. Muir, D. D.)
Loyal joy
Speaking of the early days of Queen Marys reign, Mr. Froude says: When the lords with the mayor and heralds went to the Cross at Cheapside to proclaim Mary as Queen, there was no reason to complain of a silent audience. Pembroke stood out to read, and could but utter one sentence before his voice was lost in the shout of joy which thundered into the air. God save the Queen, rang out from ten thousands of throats. God save the Queen, cried Pembroke himself when he had done, and flung up his jewelled cap and tossed his purse among the crowd. The glad news spread like lightning through London, and the pent up hearts of the citizens poured themselves out in a torrent of exultation. Above the human cries, the long silent church bells clashed again into life: first began St. Pauls, where happy chance had saved them from destruction; then, one by one, every peal which had been spared caught up the sound; and through the summer evening and night, and all the next day, the metal tongues from tower and steeple gave voice to Englands gladness.
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 6. Thou inhabitant of Zion] Not only the Jewish people, to whom his word of salvation was to be sent first; but also all members of the Church of Christ: as in them, and in his Church, the Holy One of Israel dwells. St. Paul, speaking of the mystery which had been proclaimed among the Gentiles, sums it up in these words: “which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory; whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;” Col 1:27-28. Well, therefore, may the inhabitant of Zion cry oat and shout, and proclaim the greatness of her Redeemer.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
6. inhabitant of ZionHebrew,“inhabitress”; so “daughter of Zion,” that is,Zion and its people.
in the midst of theeofJerusalem literally (Jer 3:17;Eze 48:35; Zep 3:15;Zep 3:17; Zec 2:10).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Cry out, and shout,…. By singing aloud, with the high praises of God in the mouth:
thou inhabitant of Zion: born and brought up there, free of Zion, that is settled and dwells there, and so happy; since there plenty of provisions is had, health is enjoyed, and the inhabitants in the utmost safety and protection, having the greatest privileges and immunities; and therefore have reason to sing and shout for joy, and especially for what follows:
for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee; by “the Holy One of Israel” is meant Christ, the Redeemer and Husband of this church; see Isa 48:17 because, as God, he is the God of Israel, the spiritual Israel, and as such is holy, even glorious in holiness; and, as man, sprung from Israel, literal Israel, and as such is holy in his nature, acts, and offices; and is the sanctifier of the whole Israel of God, from whom they receive all their holiness: he is “in the midst” of his church, in the midst of Zion, and the inhabitants of it, to whom he has promised his presence, and grants it, and which causes such joy and gladness, as nothing else can give; and here he is “great”, and shows himself to be so, the great God, and our Saviour; a Saviour, and a great one; a great King over the holy hill of Zion; and a great High Priest over the house of God; wherefore greatness should be ascribed unto him, and praise be given him.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
6. Shout and sing. He again exhorts the godly to rejoice in the Lord, at the same time reminding them what is the nature of true joy, and on what it is founded. We have no other happiness than to have God dwelling in the midst of us. But for this, our life would be wretched and unhappy, though we should have abundance of other blessings and of every kind of riches. Now, if our heart be set on our treasure, (Mat 6:21,) this happiness will attract all our feelings.
The Holy One of Israel. He calls him the Holy One, in order to inform us what he intends to prove himself to be to us, while he dwells with us; that is, that not only his majesty may fill our minds with reverence towards him, for it would at the same time overwhelm us with terror; but that he may vouchsafe to make us the objects of his peculiar care, though separated from the rest of the world. He calls him the Holy One, from the effect produced; for, by gathering us to himself, (Eph 1:10,) and saving us by his grace, he may be said to sanctify us to be his own property. Accordingly, if God is with us, the conviction of his presence will fill us with inconceivable joy. Hence it follows that, when he is absent, we continue to be exposed to grief and sadness.
By the words, Shout and sing, he means that when God magnifies his power in the midst of us, he gives us occasion for no ordinary joy. Again, by directly addressing the inhabitants of Zion, he intimates that all are not capable of so great a blessing, and at the same time indirectly exhorts them to maintain unity of faith, that, by being united to the Church, we may partake of this blessed joy.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
THE DUTY OF GLADNESS
Isa. 12:6. Cry out and shout, &c.
Two things are here observable:
1. The person addressed, thou inhabitant of Zion [1012] i.e., one who is no longer a stranger and foreigner, but a fellow-citizen with the saints (Eph. 2:12; Eph. 2:19).
2. The admonition given, Cry out and shout. Consider
[1012] Zion was the name of a high mound situated upon a bed of rock enclosed within the walls of Jerusalem, and making the finest and strongest part thereof. Here was first the Tabernacle, and then the Temple, and concerning it great things are declared (Psa. 132:13-18). If we look through the literal description to the spiritual glory discernible, we shall soon see that it was typical of a higher state, and a shadow of good things to come. I need hardly remind you that, by a figure of speech, Zion is used in the New Testament as significant of the Church of the living God (Heb. 12:22).Jay.
Such are the encouragements that consoled the ancient city of God in the day of her trouble. Harassed, her garrisons stormed, her armies scattered, her very sanctuary threatened with violation. she was bade remember her Eternal King, and take comfort in the thought of that watchful Guardian who sooner or later would assuredly avenge her wrongs. Often was she taught the same lesson; and often, in despite of her own froward and unbelieving heart, was the prediction realised. The Lord still loved the gates of Zion; the streams of His holy river still made glad the city of God; and He was known in her palace for a refuge. But a gloomier hour at length arrived; even Divine patience has its limits; and the last dread crime of Zion could only be expiated in her ruin. Blood had flowed beneath her hands, every drop of which was worth a universe, and she had invoked its curse upon her own head and the head of her children. And now, behold, in the fearful words of her own prophets, the lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way,Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen, because their tongues and their doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of His glory. But what?is this the city of which such glorious things are spokenthat the Highest Himself should establish her, that she should not be moved? Where are His mighty promises of perpetuity? Where is that foundation which no power should ever shakethat Zion, in which the poor of His people were to trust?
Brethren, look around you, and you behold the evidences of its existence, and of the eternal faithfulness of Him who is pledged to its immortality. A greater than Zion inherits her name; a greater than Zion bore it in the far-reaching scope of the prophetic vision. That city of the great King was but a perishable emblem of a city whose builder and maker is God. It is true she was honoured by His symbolic presence and sanctified by His sacred worship; it is true that for ages she alone, in a world of darkness, held the precious lamp of His truth; but what are these characters of honour to hers, whose every living stone is quickened by His indwelling energy, whose worship is no more in type and shadow, but in spirit and in substance; whose preaching and teaching, no longer shrouded in obscurity and limited to a corner of the earth, spreads over all lands, embraces the whole family of mankind, and makes even the course of that sun whose going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it, and from whose light nothing is hid, a faint image of the power with which she diffuses through all nations the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ? (See also 2Co. 3:10-11.)Archer Butler.
I. THE TRUTH ON WHICH THE ADMONITION IS FOUNDED. Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. This includes
1. His character, the Holy One of Israel. The holiness of God has shone forth in all that He has done in heaven and on earth (Psa. 145:17); in heaven it is the theme of the songs of the most exalted intelligences (Isa. 6:3); on earth it inspires bad men with dread and dislike (Isa. 30:11), and good men with thankfulness and hope (Psa. 30:4; Heb. 12:10; H. E. I, 2275, 2843).
2. His greatness. Greatin duration, wisdom, power, dominion, and resources. All these render Him terrible as an enemy, desirable as a friend [1015]
3. His residence. In the midst of thee. But is not God everywhere? Yes, but not everywhere in the same character; not in heaven as in earth, &c. Wherever His presence is spoken of in a way of promise or privilege, it is to be distinguished from His attribute of omnipresence, for it has then in it something peculiarly beneficial and saving (Deu. 4:7; Psa. 34:18). Gods presence in the midst of His people is the guarantee of their safety and the source of their joy. Let them adore the condescension He shows in dwelling in their midst.
[1015] How well may the Church on Zion rejoice to have such a God dwelling in the midst of it! He is great as the Giver of promises, and great in fulfilling them; great in grace, and great in judgment; great in all His saving acts, which spread from Israel to all mankind.Delitzsch.
II. THE STIRRING EXHORTATION.
1. Religion is animated. Cry out and shout, &c. What is here required cannot be merely the exclamation, separate from suitable dispositions and sentiments, as is the case with some. Noise is in itself worth nothing. On the other hand, where there are these feelings, it is permissible, yea, praiseworthy, to give free and exultant expression to them (Rev. 5:12). Some disparage such expressions as enthusiasm, but there is nothing that should call forth enthusiasm like the Gospel. Religion calls for not only feeling and sentiment, but for the highest degree of feeling and sentiment [1018]
2. Religion, rational as well as animated. Why is the inhabitant of Zion to cry aloud and shout? For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. This more than justified him, for from hence the Church can infer safety, assistance, consolation, honour. Thus God is with His people, and this is grace: soon they shall be with Him, and that is glory.William Jay: Sunday Evening Sermons and Thursday Evening Lectures, pp. 297305.
[1018] Take the Gospel. What is it? Not a decision of Parliament, or the termination of a debate which may have no effect on our welfare. It brings us glad tidings of great joy. It is infinitely important, it is eternally interesting to us. It is our life. It is all our salvation, and it should be all our desire. Therefore we should receive it as a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation. We should receive it as a dying man would a remedy, or as a condemned criminal would hail a reprieve. We should receive it with feelings superior to those with which we receive anything else. It is a subject which rises infinitely above all others in interest and importance, and demands all the energies of the soul, and renders Dr. Youngs words the words of truth and soberness:
On such a theme twere impious to be calm:
Passion is reason; transport, temper here.
Jay.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
(6) Thou inhabitant of Zion.The Hebrew is feminine. The inhabitant is the daughter of Zion, the restored Church, that has Zion for her dwelling-place.
Great is the Holy One of Israel . . .The hymn ends with the Divine Name which is characteristic of Isaiah. The presence of the Holy One was to be a joy and blessing to the remnant who were worthy of their calling. With this hymn the whole of what has been called the Immanuel volume of Isaiahs prophecies comes to its close.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
6. In the midst of thee To have God’s dwelling in the midst of his people, making and fulfiling his promises without diminution or failure, for evermore, is the prophet’s grandest thought in this closing of his book, very appropriately called the Book of Immanuel.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
This is a beautiful close to this rapturous gospel song. And let the Reader observe that expression, which tells the cause for which such shoutings of holy joy are to go forth; because great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of his people. Not only great, and glorious, is Jehovah in himself; but great, and gracious also, in them. This is the blessed and additional cause of joy. And some have observed, and very properly too is the observation made, that as the word which is translated inhabitant, might have been rendered inhabitress; meaning the Church, and the females of Zion; here is a call upon both sexes, as well as all ranks and orders, to join in the chorus, as the Psalmist in one of the Hallelujah Psalms, expresseth it: Let both young men and maidens; old men and children, let all praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is excellent; and his glory is above the earth and heaven, Psa 148:12-13 .
REFLECTIONS
MY soul! how art thou tuned in heart to sing this sweet song of the Church, and to join thy feeble note in the hymn of salvation, with all the Lord’s redeemed ones? Surely none can be more conscious than thou art, that out of Christ, Jehovah’s anger must forever burn against the sin and rebellion of thy nature; and if the Lord’s anger be turned away, and he comforteth thee; is not this in Jesus, and by Jesus, and for the alone sake of Jesus? And canst thou not, my soul, look up, and say with the Church, both above and below, Behold, God is my salvation? For is not Jesus the almighty deliverer, by his blood and righteousness, from sin and sorrow, to holiness and joy? Is it not his holy hand, and his glorious arm, that hath gotten himself the victory? Did not God the Father graciously devise it; and God the Son purchase it; and
God the Holy Ghost make application of it to thy wants and circumstances? And conscious of thy personal interest in it, wilt thou not shout aloud, and, say; Behold, God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he also is become my salvation!
And wilt thou not then, my soul, continually be drawing water from, the wells of salvation? Jesus himself is the well, even the well of living water, of which whosoever drinketh, shall live forever. And he, is an open well, a fountain not sealed to all his redeemed. Here life is found for quickening sinners, and for maintaining the life given to the languishing and dying frames of his saints. Lord! to these wells of salvation, even to thyself, blessed Jesus, would I pray for grace, daily, hourly to come; that by the wells of thy word, and in ordinances, by the influence of thine Holy Spirit, my soul may be like a watered garden from day to day, whose waters fail not: that Jesus may keep alive the grace he hath given, revive it when decayed, refresh it when languishing, and preserve it and perfect it unto life eternal. Oh! for grace thus to come, and to call others to come, and that the fathers unto the children, may declare his truth. Hither, ye poor, thirsty, famishing sinners, hither come to Jesus, the well of salvation, and draw no longer from the pools of your own righteousness! In Jesus alone the thirst of the soul finds satisfaction; and whosoever drinketh of him shall never thirst, but Jesus will be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Isa 12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Ver. 6. Cry out. ] Heb., Hinni, neigh as horses do that are full fed, or fitted for fight. Iubila quantum potes, valide et totis viribus clama, claram et laectam vocem ede.
For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
inhabitant = inhabitress.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Cry out: Isa 40:9, Isa 52:7-10, Isa 54:1, Zep 3:14, Luk 19:37-40
thou: Isa 10:24, Isa 30:19, Isa 33:24, Zec 8:3-8
inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress
great: Isa 8:18, Isa 24:23, Isa 41:14, Isa 41:16, Psa 9:11, Psa 68:16, Psa 71:22, Psa 89:18, Psa 132:14, Eze 43:7, Eze 48:35, Zep 2:5, Zep 3:15-17, Zec 2:5, Zec 2:10, Zec 2:11
Reciprocal: Exo 17:7 – Is the Lord Exo 25:8 – I may dwell Num 2:2 – about the Num 5:3 – in the midst Num 23:21 – the Lord Jos 22:31 – the Lord is 2Sa 5:7 – Zion 1Ki 14:21 – the city Ezr 3:11 – shouted Neh 12:42 – sang loud Psa 14:5 – God Psa 20:2 – out Psa 27:6 – joy Psa 46:5 – God is Psa 50:2 – Out Psa 53:6 – out Psa 76:2 – dwelling Psa 87:3 – Glorious Psa 98:4 – General Psa 99:2 – great Psa 105:2 – Sing unto Psa 106:5 – rejoice Psa 125:1 – be as mount Psa 135:21 – which dwelleth Psa 146:10 – thy God Psa 147:12 – praise thy God Isa 1:4 – the Holy Isa 14:32 – the Lord Isa 18:4 – consider in my dwelling place Isa 25:10 – in this Isa 31:4 – so shall Isa 37:23 – the Holy One Isa 38:6 – General Isa 40:6 – Cry Isa 55:6 – while he is near Jer 8:19 – the Lord Jer 10:6 – thou Jer 14:9 – art Lam 1:6 – from Eze 35:10 – whereas Eze 39:7 – the Holy Eze 48:8 – the sanctuary Hos 11:9 – the Holy One Joe 2:27 – I am Joe 3:17 – shall ye Zep 3:5 – is in Zep 3:17 – is mighty Zec 9:9 – Rejoice Mat 21:5 – the daughter Joh 4:22 – for Heb 12:22 – ye are come Rev 21:3 – Behold Rev 22:3 – but
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
12:6 Cry aloud and shout, {d} thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
(d) You who are of the Church.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
Praise and joy come with realizing that Yahweh is salvation (cf. Exo 15:20-21; Jon 2:9). The title "the Holy One of Israel" summarizes whom this hymn of praise honors, as well as what this whole section of the book is about. Only Yahweh is the Holy One of Israel!