Shining a light on the weekly Bible Lessons published in the Christian Science Quarterly®
Reality
Behold, God is my salvation; . . . Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Water in the wilderness is a recurring image in Isaiah (see other examples in 35:7; 41:17, 18; 44:3, 4; 58:11). For desert-dwellers—and for everyone in desolate circumstances of any kind—this metaphor for God’s salvation is compelling and comforting.
Viewed by scholars as a cap to the first eleven chapters of Isaiah, the six verses of chapter 12 form a prayer of thanksgiving for prophesied acts of divine deliverance.
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Resources cited in this issue
Cit. 3: The King James Study Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2017.
Cit. 8: Soards, Marion L. New International Biblical Commentary–1 Corinthians. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999.
Cit. 9: Brueggemann, Walter, and William H. Bellinger. Psalms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Cit. 18: Laymon, Charles M. The Interpreter’s One-Volume Commentary on the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1971.
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