Verse Lens · Context pointer
Isaiah 25:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4For 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.
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Role in This Section
The universalizing poetic vision supplies a stated reason through “For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a…” at Isaiah 25:4 in “A Song Praises the Fall of Ruthless Cities.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 25:1–5
Read Isaiah 25:4 with 25:1–5. By itself, “For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Wonderful counsels, ruined fortifications, fearful nations, and refuge for poor and needy people ground praise after judgment.
Why It Needs Context
Isaiah 25:4 performs a local role inside “A Song Praises the Fall of Ruthless Cities.” The universalizing poetic vision supplies a stated reason through “For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a…” at Isaiah 25:4 in “A Song Praises the Fall of Ruthless Cities.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 25:1–5 — A Song Praises the Fall of Ruthless CitiesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 25:1–5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 25:1–5 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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