Isaiah 25:4

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Summary

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.

Thou hast

A refuge

Isaiah 4:5

Isaiah 32:2

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Bible References

Thou hast

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

“How then will one answer the messengers of the nation?
That the Lord has founded Zion,
And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.”

The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the Lord,
And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for You.
Be their

strength every morning,

Our salvation also in the time of distress.

“For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

“But He saves from the sword of their mouth,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,
Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him,
And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

May he vindicate the afflicted of the people,

Save the children of the needy
And crush the oppressor.

But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,
And makes his families like a flock.

I cling to Your testimonies;
O Lord, do not put me to shame!

“But I will leave among you
A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

A refuge

then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Each will be like a refuge from the wind
And a shelter from the storm,
Like

streams of water in a dry country,

Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

When

Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation,
And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.