--- title: "Clarke" description: "NOTES ON CHAP. XII Verse Isaiah 12:1. Though thou wast angry - \"For though thou hast been angry\"] The Hebrew phrase, to which the Septuagint and Vulgate h" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/isaiah/12" --- NOTES ON CHAP. XII Verse [Isaiah 12:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/12/1). ***Though thou wast angry*** - "For though thou hast been angry"] The Hebrew phrase, to which the *Septuagint* and *Vulgate* have too closely adhered, is exactly the same with that of St. Paul, [Romans 6:17](../../../kjv/romans/6/17): "But thanks be to God, that ye were the slaves of sin; but have obeyed from the heart;" that is, "that whereas, or though, ye were the slaves of sin, yet ye have now obeyed from the heart the doctrine on the model of which ye were formed." Verse [Isaiah 12:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/12/2). ***The Lord JEHOVAH*** — The word יה *Yah* read here is probably a mistake; and arose originally from the custom of the Jewish scribes, who, when they found a line too short for the word, wrote as many letters as filled it, and then began the next line with the whole word. In writing the word יהוה *Jehovah*, the line might terminate with יה *Yah*, the two first letters; and then at the beginning of the next line the whole word יהוה *Yehovah* would be written. This might give rise to יה יהוה *Yah Yehovah*. The יה *Yah* is wanting here in two of Dr. *Kennicott's* MSS., in one ancient MS. of my own, and in the *Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac*, and *Arabic*. See *Houbigant* and *De Rossi*. **My*****song*** — The pronoun is here necessary; and it is added by the *Septuagint, Vulgate*, and *Syriac*, who read זמרתי *zimrathi*, as it is in a MS. Two MSS. omit יה *Yah*, see *Houbigant*, not. in loc. Another MS. has it in one word, זמרתיה *zimrathyah*. Seven others omit יהוה *Yehovah*. See [Exodus 15:2](../../../kjv/exodus/15/2), with Var. Lect. *Kennicott*. Verse [Isaiah 12:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/12/4). ***Call upon his name*** — קראו בשמו *kiru bishmo, invoke his* *name*. Make him your *Mediator*, or *call* the people *in his name*. Preach him who is the *Root of Jesse*, and *who stands as an ensign* *for the nations*. Call on the people to believe in him; as in him alone salvation is to be found. Verse [Isaiah 12:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/12/6). ***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;" [Colossians 1:27-28](../../../kjv/colossians/1/27-28). 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