Isaiah 25:4

New Century Version

You protect the poor; you protect the helpless when they are in danger. You are like a shelter from storms, like shade that protects them from the heat. The cruel people attack like a rainstorm beating against the wall,

Cross References

Psalm 107:41

But he lifted the poor out of their suffering and made their families grow like flocks of sheep.

Psalm 119:31

I hold on to your rules. Lord, do not let me be disgraced.

Psalm 12:5

But the Lord says, “I will now rise up, because the poor are being hurt. Because of the moans of the helpless, I will give them the help they want.”

Psalm 121:5

The Lord guards you. The Lord is the shade that protects you from the sun.

Psalm 35:10

Even my bones will say, “Lord, who is like you? You save the weak from the strong, the weak and poor from robbers.”

Psalm 55:8

I would hurry to my place of escape, far away from the wind and storm.”

Psalm 72:13

He will be kind to the weak and poor, and he will save their lives.

Psalm 72:4

Help him be fair to the poor and save the needy and punish those who hurt them.

Psalm 9:10

Those who know the Lord trust him, because he will not leave those who come to him.

Psalm 91:1

Those who go to God Most High for safety will be protected by the Almighty.

Isaiah 11:4

But he will judge the poor honestly; he will be fair in his decisions for the poor people of the land. At his command evil people will be punished, and by his words the wicked will be put to death.

Isaiah 14:32

What shall we tell the messengers from Philistia? Say that the Lord has made Jerusalem strong and that his poor people will go there for safety.

Isaiah 16:3

They say: “Help us. Tell us what to do. Protect us from our enemies as shade protects us from the noon sun. Hide us, because we are running for safety! Don’t give us to our enemies.

Isaiah 17:10

You have forgotten the God who saves you; you have not remembered that God is your place of safety. You plant the finest grapevines and grapevines from faraway places.

Isaiah 27:5

But if anyone comes to me for safety and wants to make peace with me, he should come and make peace with me.”

Isaiah 28:6

Then he will give wisdom to the judges who must decide cases and strength to those who battle at the city gate.

Isaiah 29:19

The Lord will make the poor people happy; they will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 29:20

Then the people without mercy will come to an end; those who do not respect God will disappear. Those who enjoy doing evil will be gone:

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will become like fine dust; the many cruel people will be like chaff that is blown away. Everything will happen very quickly.

Isaiah 32:2

Then each ruler will be like a shelter from the wind, like a safe place in a storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like a cool shadow from a large rock in a hot land.

Isaiah 33:16

this is the kind of person who will be safe. He will be protected as he would be in a high, walled city. He will always have bread, and he will not run out of water.

Isaiah 33:2

Lord, be kind to us. We have waited for your help. Give us strength every morning. Save us when we are in trouble.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went out and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies.

Isaiah 49:25

This is what the Lord says: “The prisoners will be taken from the strong soldiers. What the soldiers have taken will be saved. I will fight your enemies, and I will save your children.

Isaiah 57:13

When you cry out for help, let the gods you have gathered help you. The wind will blow them all away; just a puff of wind will take them away. But the person who depends on me will receive the land and own my holy mountain.”

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all things. All things are here because I made them,” says the Lord. “These are the people I am pleased with: those who are not proud or stubborn and who fear my word.

Isaiah 8:14

Then he will be a place of safety for you. But for the two families of Israel, he will be like a stone that causes people to stumble, like a rock that makes them fall. He will be like a trap for the people of Jerusalem, and he will catch them in his trap.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, you are my strength and my protection, my safe place in times of trouble. The nations will come to you from all over the world and say, “Our ancestors had only false gods, useless idols that didn’t help them.

Ezekiel 38:9

You will come like a storm. You, all your troops, and the many nations with you will be like a cloud covering the land.

Zephaniah 3:12

But I will leave in the city the humble and those who are not proud, and they will trust in the Lord.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! God chose the poor in the world to be rich with faith and to receive the kingdom God promised to those who love him.