⁴ For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

² And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

¹² But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

⁴¹ But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.

⁵ And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

⁶ And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.

³² What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

²⁵ But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.

² For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

¹¹ Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.

¹² And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

¹³ For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.

⁵ Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

³ And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

⁴ It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

¹⁶ He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

² O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

⁵ Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

¹⁰ All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

⁴ May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

¹³ He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

³¹ I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.

⁴ But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

¹⁰ For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

⁵ Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

⁵ And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

¹⁹ And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

¹⁵ But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

¹⁶ So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.