Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
- BSB But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- 1 Sam 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
- Job 21:11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
- Ps 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- Isa 49:20–22The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
- 1 Sam 2:21Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
- Job 8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
- Esth 8:15–17Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
- Job 42:10–12Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- Ruth 4:14–17The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.
- Job 11:15–19Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
- Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
- Gen 48:11Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
- Ps 128:6Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
- Job 42:16After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
- Jer 52:31–34In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison;
- Ps 113:7–9He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
- Gen 23:5–7The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
- Job 5:11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
- Prov 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
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