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32 What will one answer the messengers of the nations?[a]
    “The Lord has established Zion,
    and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:32 Messengers of the nations: envoys from Philistia, and from Egypt and Ethiopia, the real powers behind the Philistine revolt (20:1–6; cf. 18:1–2).

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind,
    a refuge from the rain.
They will be like streams of water in a dry country,
    like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.(A)

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The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
    a refuge on the day of distress,
Taking care of those who look to him for protection,

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