Isaiah 12:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is a great beauty in some of our old Bibles, which express this phrase of drawing water, as if it were out of the wells of the Saviour. Everything of grace is fetched by faith from Christ, and is in Christ. Ordinances are nothing without Jesus; and it is Christ himself; and not means of grace, however pure they are in themselves, that are the fountain and well of the soul. Hence the Church sings: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon is my beloved! Song of Solomon 4:15. Hence also, Jesus to the Samaritan woman, said, that the water he gave, should be in his people, a well of living water, springing up into everlasting life! John 4:14.