Isaiah 25:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

² For you have reduced the city to a heap,
the fortified city to ruins.
The citadel of foreigners is no longer a city at all.
It will never be rebuilt.
³ That is why powerful peoples will honor you.
The cities of cruel nations will fear you,
⁴ for you have been a stronghold for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy in their distress.
You have been a shelter from the rainstorm
and shade from the heat.
When the breath of the ruthless is like a rainstorm battering a wall,