For 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.
The poor ... the needy - the Jews, exiles from their country (Isaiah 26:6; Isaiah 41:17).
A shadow from the heat - from calamity (Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 32:2).
The blast - i:e., the wrath.
As a storm - a tempest of rain; a winter flood, rushing against and overthrowing the wall of a house.