But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
- KJV Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
- NKJV Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction, And makes their families like a flock.
- NASB But He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction, And makes his families like a flock.
- NLT But he rescues the poor from trouble and increases their families like flocks of sheep.
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Yet God lifts the needy out of affliction and multiplies their families like flocks.
Overview
In contrast to the humbled princes, God raises the poor from misery and grants them flourishing households. He reverses human estimations, exalting the lowly and providing abundantly. This pattern of lifting the needy anticipates the gospel's great reversal, where God exalts the humble and the meek inherit the earth through Christ.
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Cross-references · 19
- 1 Sam 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- Ps 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- Isa 49:20–22Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
- 1 Sam 2:21So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
- Job 8:7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
- Esth 8:15–17Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
- Job 42:10–12After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
- Ruth 4:14–17Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.
- Job 11:15–19then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
- Jas 5:11See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
- Gen 48:11“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”
- Ps 128:6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Jer 52:31–34On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
- Ps 113:7–9He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- Gen 23:5–7The Hittites replied to Abraham,
- Job 5:11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
- Prov 17:6Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
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