Isaiah 25:4

But you have protected the poor and needy when they were in trouble, you shielded them from storms and shaded them from the heat. For the actions of brutal people are like rain beating against a wall,

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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

3Because of this powerful nations will honor you; cities of brutal nations will be in awe of you.

5like heat in a desert. You end the noisy uprising of foreigners. In the same way that a cloud's shadow cools down the heat of the day, so the song sung by brutal people is silenced.

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Cross References

Job 5:15But God is the one who saves from their cutting remarks, and the poor from the actions of the powerful.

Psalms 12:5“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”

Psalms 72:4May he defend the poor and save their children, may he crush those who oppress them.

Psalms 91:1Those who live under the protection of the Most High are kept safe by the Almighty.

Psalms 119:31I hold on to your teachings, Lord. Don't let me be ridiculed.

Isaiah 4:6It will provide a place to stay in the shade of the daytime heat, and a shelter to hide from storm and 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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