Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The Lord Jehovah - The word Yah read here is probably a mistake; and arose originally from the custom of the Jewish scribes, who, when they found a line too short for the word, wrote as many letters as filled it, and then began the next line with the whole word. In writing the word Jehovah , the line might terminate with Yah , the two first letters; and then at the beginning of the next line the whole word Yehovah would be written. This might give rise to Yah Yehovah . The Yah is wanting here in two of Dr. Kennicott' s MSS., in one ancient MS. of my own, and in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic. See Houbigant and De Rossi.
My song - The pronoun is here necessary; and it is added by the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Syriac, who read zimrathi , as it is in a MS. Two MSS. omit Yah , see Houbigant, not. in loc. Another MS. has it in one word, zimrathyah . Seven others omit Yehovah . See Exodus 15:2, with Var. Lect. Kennicott.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 12:2:
Exodus 15:2
Isaiah 26:4
Isaiah 38:11
John 7:2
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