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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 25:4

Thou hast been a strength... — Literally, a fortress. The fierceness of the oppressor is represented by the intolerable heat, and the fierce tornado of an eastern storm, dashing against the wall, threatening it with destruction. From that storm the faithful servants of the Lord should find shelter as in the castle of the great King.

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See also Isaiah 25:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 Lo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 Israel's Praise and the Blessings of the Kingdom 1. _The praise of the delivered nation (Isaiah 25:1)_ 2. _The blessing for all nations during the Kingdom (Isaiah 25:6)_ 3. Israel rejoicin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A SONG OF PRAISE FOR YAHWEH'S GREAT DELIVERANCE. The deliverance still lies in the future; the song is written from the standpoint of the redeemed community, and expresses its exultation over its salv...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STRENGTH. stronghold. POOR. Hebrew. _dal_. impoverished, reduced. See note on "poverty" Proverbs 6:11. WHEN THE BLAST OF THE TERRIBLE ONES IS. for the blast of the terrible ones [is], &c. BLAST. Heb...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Its happy consequences nor Israel. The "for" may refer back to Isaiah 25:1 or to Isaiah 25:3; in either case the judgment on the oppressive city is regarded as a signal proof of Jehovah's protecting c...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The writer of the psalm, speaking in the name of the believing community, praises God for His wonderful providence (Isaiah 25:1) manifested in the overthrow of Israel's enemies (2, 3) and in the mercy...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 891 CHRIST A SUITABLE AND ALL SUFFICIENT HELP Isaiah 25:4. _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,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE, &C.— These verses contain another gradation of this triumphal song; the meaning whereof is, that the deliverance and salvation which God had procured by his right hand for his people, reduc...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. JUBILEE BY JUDAH, CHAPTER 25 1. JUBILATION FOR JEHOVAH'S POWER TEXT: Isaiah 25:1-5 1 O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, e...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. THY COUNSELS, etc.] RV 'even counsels of old' (i.e. formed of old) 'in faithfulness and truth.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STRENGTH] RV 'stronghold.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 25 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 *Lord, you are my God. I will always give you great honou...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Lord has also shown his great power when he provided shelter for poor people. They seemed to be without any defence. But the *Lord protected them as a harbour protects boats....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־הָיִ֨יתָ מָעֹ֥וז לַ † דָּ֛ל מָעֹ֥וז...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SORROW TURNED TO GLADNESS Isaiah 25:1-12 Here is a song of thanksgiving at the fall of Babylon. When she fell, a sigh of relief passed over the whole world, and strong, terrible nations over which sh...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Immediately following this terrible description is a prophecy which, in the form of praise, declares the activity of Jehovah. The song first offers praise for judgment both in its procedure, as it des...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast (e) of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Poor; Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor's fury could not exterminate._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! look at Jesus, while reading these verses. Behold him as all this, and infinitely more: and what a rich enjoyment do those views in Him, and by Him, and from Him, afford the soul, under any, a...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._For thou hast been a strength to the poor. _Hence we see the fruit of conversion, namely, that the Lord raises us from the dead, and brings us, as it were, out of the grave, stretching out his hand...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 w...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore shall the strong people fear thee_ Thy stoutest enemies, observing thy wonderful works, shall be converted, or at least, convinced, and forced to tremble before thee. _For thou hast been a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THANKSGIVING FOR GOD'S BENEFITS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For Thou hast been a strength to the poor, Matthew 5:3, A STRENGTH TO THE NEEDY IN HIS DISTRESS, A REFUGE FROM THE STORM, so that its fury could do no harm, A SHADOW FROM THE HEAT, that of various aff...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 However this might show the deliverance of the Jews out of captivity, it looked further, to the praises that should be offered up to God for Christ's victories over our spiritual enemies, and the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FOR THOU HAST BEEN A STRENGTH TO THE POOR, & c.; for thou hast defended thy poor and helpless people against the fiercest assaults of their enemies. WHEN THE BLAST OF THE TERRIBLE ONE IS AS A STORM AG...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 25:4 strength H4581 poor H1800 strength H4581 needy H34 distress H6862 refuge H4268 storm H2230 shade H6738 heat

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH WILL BRING DOWN ‘THE CITY' WITH ALL ITS ANTI-GOD SIGNIFICANCE AND WILL UPHOLD HIS PEOPLE AND DEFEAT DEATH SO THAT THEY RISE AGAIN (ISAIAH 25:1). Analysis. a O Yahweh, you are my God, I will ex...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 25:4 I. This is a world where storms often gather, and tempests on this planet are never out of place. The storm has also its mission and its work as well as the calm. Now, among men, adversit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Triumphs of the coming Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: God should be exalted by His people for the wonderful things He has done, and is to do, according to His promises,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 25:2. _A defenced city a ruin._ This city, in the next words, is called _a palace of strangers;_ therefore it was a great city. In the critics we find nothing but conjectures, as Samaria Ar of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For Thou hast been a strength to the poor_ “POOR” AND “NEEDY” Among the names applied to God’s people there are three which were destined to play an enormous part in the history of religion. In the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:1 Human domination is overthrown by God. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:4 STRONGHOLD. The redeemed have in God something better than the “fortified city” of man (v. Isaiah 25:2)....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 25:1 ISAIAH'S SONG OF PRAISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOD'S KINGDOM. AS in Isai

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1). In other words, "God, I'm goi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 13:11; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 14:32; Isaiah 29:19; Isaiah 32:18

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For — For thou hast defended thy poor and helpless people. As a storm — Makes a great noise, but without any effect....

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