Render: As heat in a dry place (cf. Isaiah 32:2) Thou humblest the pride of aliens; ( as) heat by the shadow of a cloud the song of the tyrants is brought low. The meaning is that as natural heat, however intense, is abated by an intervening cloud, so Jehovah has means of bringing to an end the fiercest oppression to which His people can be exposed.

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