Isaias 25:4

Filipino Cebuano Bible

4 Kay ikaw nahimong usa ka malig-ong dalangpanan sa tawong kabus, usa ka malig-ong saliganan sa tawong hangul diha sa iyang kagul-anan, usa ka dalangpanan gikan sa bagyo, usa ka landong gikan sa kainit, sa diha nga mohuyop ang makalilisang nga hangin sama sa bagyo batok sa malig-on nga bungbong.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou hast: Isaiah 11:4, Isaiah 14:32, Isaiah 29:19, Isaiah 33:2, Isaiah 66:2, Job 5:15, Job 5:16, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 35:10, Psalms 72:4, Psalms 72:13, Psalms 107:41, Psalms 119:31, Zephaniah 3:12, James 2:5

a refuge: Isaiah 4:5, Isaiah 4:6, Isaiah 32:2

when: Isaiah 32:18, Isaiah 32:19, Isaiah 37:3, Isaiah 37:4, Isaiah 37:36, Ezekiel 13:11-13, Matthew 7:25-27

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:14 - a covering Deuteronomy 33:27 - eternal 1 Samuel 30:6 - David Psalms 121:5 - thy shade Song of Solomon 2:3 - I sat Isaiah 16:3 - make Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 27:5 - let him Isaiah 28:2 - as a tempest Isaiah 28:17 - and the hail Isaiah 29:20 - the terrible Isaiah 49:10 - neither Jeremiah 16:19 - my strength Jeremiah 20:13 - for Jeremiah 49:16 - terribleness Ezekiel 28:7 - the terrible Ezekiel 38:9 - shalt ascend Nahum 1:7 - strong hold Mark 4:6 - the sun Hebrews 6:19 - both Revelation 7:16 - the sun

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress,.... The people of God, who are poor and needy, both in a literal and in a spiritual sense; and especially when under afflicted circumstances, in times of desertion, temptation, bodily affliction, and persecution from men, which may be here chiefly intended; to whom the Lord is a strength: he strengthens their hearts, and his own grace in them; he sheds abroad his love in their hearts, which makes their mountain to stand strong; he directs them to Christ, in whom is strength, as well as righteousness; he strengthens them by his Spirit, his promises, word, and ordinances. Christ may be more especially meant; and it may refer to the strength and power he will give to his people in the latter day; when a small one shall be a strong nation; when the feeble shall be as David, and the house of David as the angel of the Lord; when they shall have got the victory over the beast, his mark and image, Isaiah 60:21:

a refuge from the storm; or tempestuous rain, or overflowing flood; as Christ is a refuge from the tempest and storm of divine wrath and vengeance, by his satisfaction and righteousness, Isaiah 32:2 so from the flood of persecution, by his power and providence, Revelation 12:15:

a shadow from the heat; which gives refreshment and rest, and is a protection from the scorching beams of the sun. Christ, as he is the shadow from the heat of a fiery law, from the flaming sword of justice, from the wrath of God, and the fiery darts of Satan's temptations; so from the violence of persecution, which heat shall now be no more, antichrist being destroyed, Revelation 7:15:

when blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall; these terrible ones are either Satan and his principalities, who are very terrible to the Lord's people; and whose temptations are like a strong wind, which beat against them as against a wall, but they stand, the Lord being their strength, refuge, and shadow; see Isaiah 49:24 or rather antichrist and his persecuting princes, the kings of the earth, that have joined him, and persecuted the saints, and have been terrible to them; and whose persecutions have been like a blustering strong wind, threatening to carry all before them; but the Lord has been their protection, and made them to stand as a wall, firm and immovable, against them. The Targum is,

"so the words of the wicked are to the righteous, as a storm that dasheth against a wall.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast been a strength to the poor - Thou hast sustained and upheld them in their trials, and hast delivered them. God is often spoken of as the strength of his people. Isaiah 26:4 : ‘In the Lord Yahweh is everlasting strength.’ Psalms 27:1 : ‘The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?’ Psalms 28:8; Psalms 29:11; Psalms 31:2; Psalms 46:1; Isaiah 45:24. By the ‘poor’ and the ‘needy’ here undoubtedly are mean; the captive Jews who had been stripped of their wealth, and carried from their homes, and confined in Babylon.

A refuge - A place of safety; a retreat; a protection. God is often spoken of as such a refuge; Deuteronomy 33:27 : ‘The eternal God is thy refuge.’ 2 Samuel 22:3; Psalms 9:9; Psalms 14:6; Psalms 46:1, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11; Psalms 57:1; Psalms 59:16)

From the storm - This word (זרם zerem) usually denotes a tempest of wind and rain. Here it is put for calamity and affliction. The figure is common in all languages.

A shadow from the heat - (See Isaiah 4:6, note; Isaiah 16:3, note; compare Isaiah 32:2.)

When the blast of the terrible ones - Of the fierce, mighty, invading enemies. When they sweep down all before them as a furious tempest does.

Is as a storm against the wall - For ‘wall’ here (קיר qiyr), Lowth proposes to read קוּר qûr, from קרר qârar, to be cold or cool, and supposes that this means a winters storm. In this interpretation also Vitringa and Cappellus coincide. But there is no need of supposing an error in the text. The idea is, probably, that of a fierce driving storm that would prostrate walls and houses; meaning a violent tempest, and intending to describe in a striking manner the severity of the calamities that had come upon the nation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 25:4. As a storm against the wall - "Like a winter - storm."] For קיר kir, read קור kor: or, as עיר ir from ערר arar, קיר kir from קרר karar. - Capellus.