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 (; ).

A shadow from the heat - from calamity (; ).

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.

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