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Isaiah 25:4

Protection and safetyPoverty and the vulnerableDiscouragement and depressionComfort

2 Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

5 like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

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BSB
For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
KJV
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.
WEB
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 dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
ASV
For thou hast 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 terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
DARBY
For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones [has been] as the storm [against] a wall.
BLB
For You have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy one in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat—for the breath of the ruthless ones [is] like a storm against a wall,
ÅB
for du har vært et vern for den ringe, et vern for den fattige i hans trengsel, et ly mot regnskyll, en skygge mot hete; for voldsmenns fnysen er som regnskyll mot en vegg.
OTB
For du har vært en borg for de fattige, et tilfluktssted for de trengende i deres nød, et skjul mot stormen og en skygge mot varmen; for de nådeløses pust er som en storm mot en vegg.
B1930
for du har vært et vern for den ringe, et vern for den fattige i hans trengsel, et ly mot regnskyll, en skygge mot hete; for voldsmenns fnysen er som regnskyll mot en vegg.

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