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

When

Bible References

Thou hast

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for you: be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that plunders him?

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Yet sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes their families like a flock.

I have clung unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

A refuge

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a covering.

And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a refuge from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

When

And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children have come to birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall break it.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.