Isaiah 25:4

For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

In Context

3Therefore shall the poor people bless thee, and cities of injured men shall bless thee.

5We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.

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Cross References

Job 5:15and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

Psalms 12:5lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.

Psalms 72:4For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction.

Psalms 91:1A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day.

Isaiah 4:6And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding-place from inclemency of weather and from rain.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 25:2-6

A Song of Praise. ( b. c. 718.) 1 O Lord , thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the… Read the whole commentary →

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