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 needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips.

How will they answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in it the afflicted among his people will find refuge."

The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

"LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you; and be our strength every morning, our salvation in times of trouble.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message.

So he delivers from the sword of their mouth the poor from the power of the mighty.

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?"

May he defend the afflicted of the people and deliver the children of the poor, but crush the oppressor.

Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock.

I cling to your decrees; LORD, do not put me to shame.

I will keep a humble and gentle people among you, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

A refuge

Then the LORD will create over the entire site of Mount Zion including over those who assemble there a cloud by day

Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a hiding place from storms, like streams of water in the desert, in the shadow of a great rock in an exhausted land.

When

My people will live in peaceful dwellings, in secure homes and in undisturbed resting places.

"Here is what Hezekiah says," they told him. "This day is a day of trouble, rebuke, and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no energy to deliver them.

"When someone builds a wall, they coat it with whitewash. Tell those who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. It will be washed off by the rain. Great hailstones will fall and a stormy wind will strip it off.

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation was on the rock.