But _look upon Zion_; behold again _she is the city of our solemn diets; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall the cords thereof be broken. But there Jehovah_, whom we have known only for affliction, _shall be in majesty for us_. Other peoples have their natural defences, Assyria and Egypt their Euphrates and Nile; but God Himself shall be for us _a place of rivers, streams, broad on both hands, on which never a galley shall go, nor gallant ship shall pass upon it_. Without sign of battle, God shall be our refuge and our strength. It was that marvellous deliverance of Jerusalem by the hand of God, with no effort of human war, which caused Isaiah to invest with such majesty the meagre rock, its squalid surroundings and paltry defences. The insignificant and waterless city was glorious to the prophet because God was in her. One of the richest imaginations which patriot ever poured upon his fatherland was inspired by the simplest faith saint ever breathed. Isaiah strikes again the old keynote (chap. viii.) about the waterlessness of Jerusalem. We have to keep in mind the Jews' complaints of this, in order to understand what the forty-sixth Psalm means when it says, _There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of our God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High_--or what Isaiah means when he says, _Glorious shall Jehovah be unto us, a place of broad rivers and streams_. Yea, he adds, Jehovah is everything to us: Jehovah is our Judge; Jehovah is our Lawgiver; Jehovah is our King: He will save us. [63] Chap. xxxvii. * * * * * Such were the feelings aroused in Jerusalem by the sudden relief of the city. Some of the verses, which we have scarcely touched, we will now consider more fully as the expression of a doctrine which runs throughout Isaiah, and indeed is one of his two or three fundamental truths--that the righteousness of God is an all-pervading atmosphere, an atmosphere that wears and burns.