What a great God we have. He comforts those who inhabit Zion (poetic version of: those in Jerusalem as God’s chosen people who put their trust in Him. This also includes those who are born again at the foot of the cross [Christ’s crucifixion took place on Mount Moriah-see Lambert Dolphin’s Mount Moriah, site of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem @ templemount.org, 1996]. Christ followers are grafted in/adopted as Zion’s children.) I need His comfort daily. We can rejoice whenever we listen to the scripture sung in Handel’s Messiah (“comfort ye”). -Teresa #Heisgreat

Isaiah 12:1-6 (ESV)

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You[a] will say in that day:

“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,

    for though you were angry with me,

your anger turned away,

    that you might comfort me.

2 

“Behold, God is my salvation;

    I will trust, and will not be afraid;

for the Lord God[b] is my strength and my song,

    and he has become my salvation.”

3 With joy you[c] will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4 And you will say in that day:

“Give thanks to the Lord,

    call upon his name,

make known his deeds among the peoples,

    proclaim that his name is exalted.

5 

“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;

    let this be made known[d] in all the earth.

6 

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

    for great in your[e] midst is the Holy One of Israel.”