Ver. 1. "_And in that day thou sayest: I will praise thee, Lord, for thou wast angry with me, and now thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me._ Ver. 2. _Behold, God is my salvation; I trust, and am not afraid; for my strength and song is the Lord, and He became my Saviour._" The words "my strength and my song," are from Exod. xv. 2. The two members of the verse enter into the right relation to one another, and the כי becomes intelligible, only if we keep in mind that the words at the beginning, "The Lord is my salvation," are an expression of the conviction of the speaker; hence are equivalent to: we acknowledge Him as our God; so that the first part expresses the subjective disposition of the Church; the second, the objective circumstance of the case--that on which that disposition is founded, and from which it grew up. Ver. 3. "_And ye draw water in joy out of the wells of salvation._" During the journey through the wilderness, the bestowal of salvation had been represented under the form of granting [Pg 134] water. It is to it that we have here an allusion. The spiritual water denotes salvation. Ver. 4. "_And in that day ye say: Praise the Lord, proclaim His name, declare His doings among the nations, make mention that His name is exalted._ Ver. 5. _Praise the Lord, for He hath done great things; this is known in all the earth._" Ver. 6. "_Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in thy midst._" * * * * * * * * * *