Isaiah 30:29

Ye shall have a song, &c.— The consequence of God's judgment upon the Assyrian, the prophet here declares, should be great rejoicing in the Jewish church, celebrated with hymns and songs on that night in which their haughty enemy should be destroyed: such songs as the Israelites used when delivered from Egypt, and on other occasions. See Exodus 15:1; Exodus 15:27. Judges 5:1; Judges 5:31. The holy solemnity seems to mean the passover, when the great הלל hallel was sung. The other figure is taken from the custom of bringing the first-fruits with the sound of the pipe to the temple. See Deuteronomy 26:1; Deuteronomy 26:19 and Lightfoot on the Ministry of the Temple, ch. 16 sect. 5. This verse might be better rendered, Ye shall have a song [in that night] as in the night when the festival is sanctified, and joy of heart like his who moveth to the sound of the pipe, when going to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel. See Vitringa.