1In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; …
For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)To the prophecies of gospel grace very fitly is a song annexed, in which we may give God the glory and take to ourselves the comfort of that grace: In that day , the gospel day, which the day of the victories and enlargements of the Old-Testament church was typical of (to some of which perhaps this has a primary reference), in that day this song shall be sung ; there shall be persons to sing it, a…
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