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For you have made[a] the city a heap,
    the fortified city a ruin,
the palace of foreigners is no longer[b] a city;
    it will never[c] be rebuilt.
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
    a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you.
For you have been a refuge to the poor,
    a refuge to the needy in his distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm,
    a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall,[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:2 Literally “placed”
  2. Isaiah 25:2 Literally “from”
  3. Isaiah 25:2 Literally “to eternity not”
  4. Isaiah 25:4 The same consonants with different vowels can be translated “winter rainstorm”