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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I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. …
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is said in the close of the foregoing chapter that the Lord of hosts shall reign gloriously ; now, in compliance with this, the prophet here speaks of the glorious majesty of his kingdom (Ps. 145:12), and gives him the glory of it; and, however this prophecy might have an accomplishment in the destruction of Babylon and the deliverance of the Jews out of their captivity there, it seems to look…
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