What does Isaias Chapter 12 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 12 supplies words to say in that day: thanksgiving to Lord formerly angry, wrath turned away and comfort received. God is speaker's saviour, basis for confident action without fear, strength, praise and salvation. Joyful water-drawing is from saviour's fountains. Waters are not renamed living waters or described as inexhaustible grace in the chapter's own words.

The people are to praise and invoke Lord, make works known among people, remember high name, sing great deeds and show them throughout earth. Sion habitation rejoices and praises because Holy One of Israel great in its midst. Separate edition heading calls this thanksgiving for Christ's benefits; eucharistic classification, tender protection and universal guaranteed reversal of wrath for everyone are not stated by the canticle.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Development: Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. Conclusion: The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

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The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording.
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Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct.
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The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 79545–79547
12:2. Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.
Lines 79549–79549
12:3. Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour’s fountains: