Isaiah 25:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.

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  • Matt 7:25-27 : 25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
  • Isa 32:2 : 2 A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
  • Zeph 3:12 : 12 But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • Isa 49:25 : 25 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
  • Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
  • Ezek 13:11-13 : 11 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it. 12 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
  • Ps 107:41 : 41 Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, And increases their families like a flock.
  • Isa 4:5-6 : 5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked.
  • Ps 119:31 : 31 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
  • Ps 72:4 : 4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.
  • Ps 72:13 : 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
  • Isa 17:10 : 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.
  • Isa 27:5 : 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
  • Isa 29:19 : 19 The humble also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 32:18-19 : 18 My people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. 19 But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
  • Isa 33:2 : 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
  • Isa 33:16 : 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
  • Isa 37:3-4 : 3 They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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  • 5As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.

  • Isa 25:2-3
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    2For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

    3Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you.

  • 6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

  • 3For you have been a refuge for me, A strong tower from the enemy.

  • 2A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

  • 9Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • 6You frustrate the plan of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.

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    9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; A high tower in times of trouble.

  • Job 4:3-5
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    3Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

    4Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

    5But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

  • 2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • 8"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest."

  • 27I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.

  • 14But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

  • 40You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

  • 15So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your storm.

  • 4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • 1> God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

  • 9You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 10All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

  • 27When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.

  • 22But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.

  • 4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • 18For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.

  • 14In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

  • 12The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 2My loving kindness, my fortress, My high tower, my deliverer, My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.

  • 19But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.

  • 3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, For you are my rock and my fortress.

  • 2Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • 14You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, Gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

  • 1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

  • 10If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.

  • 3A needy man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • 7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • 2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.

  • 14Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

  • 29For you are my lamp, Yahweh; Yahweh will lighten my darkness.

  • 15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

  • 5"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

  • 3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?

  • 27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.

  • 20Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.

  • 10Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

  • 19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.

  • 4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, For you are my stronghold.

  • 1In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.