2. For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
3. Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
4. For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
5. As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.