Isaiah 25:4

For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants ¹  is like a winter rainstorm, ² 

Job 5:15,16; Ps 12:5; Ps 35:10; Ps 72:4,13; Ps 107:41; Ps 119:31; Isa 4:5,6; Isa 11:4; Isa 14:32; Isa 29:19; Isa 32:2; Isa 32:18,19; Isa 33:2; Isa 37:3,4,36; Isa 66:2; Eze 13:11-13; Zep 3:12; Mt 7:25-27; Jas 2:5

¹ tn Or perhaps, “the violent”; NIV, NRSV “the ruthless.”

² tc The Hebrew text has, “like a rainstorm of a wall,” which might be interpreted to mean, “like a rainstorm battering against a wall.” The translation assumes an emendation of קִיר (qir, “wall”) to קֹר (qor, “cold, winter”; cf. Gen 8:22). See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:457, n. 6, for discussion.