We note verses 10-13 today … “Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. 13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.” Clearly a song of praise to our God!
Isaiah several times in his Corpus (his whole Book, its 66 chapters) spontaneously breaks into song! (Paul the Apostle occasionally does this as well. There’s just something about Jesus that makes one joyful!)
In today’s Text, after seeing Jesus as clearly as we have (read yesterday’s Lesson, if you missed it) … this kind of exuberance is highly appropriate!
Our Paragraph answers three basic questions … hence the singing.
To Whom shall we sing? “The Lord.” (He is worthy!)
And the singers are? “Ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.” Just about everybody! On sea and land! In country and city! Gentiles (Kedar) and Jews (Isaiah’s audience)! You mountain people too!
Why sing? Because of God’s great Victory! “The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.”
“Mighty Man” is the Hebrew word for “Champion!” And “jealousy” is “zeal, ardor, enthusiasm,” God being “on fire” to defeat evil!
Think Second coming!
Think Armageddon!
Think Millennium!
Think new heaven and new earth!
Think eternal bliss!
Why, I am about to sing!
Hallelujah!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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