Psalms 113:7

God lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the ash heap. He raises the lowest to dignity.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
• Luke 1:52–53He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
• Ps 107:41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
• Job 5:11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
• 2 Sam 7:8–9Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
• Dan 12:2–3And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Ezek 17:24Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
• Ps 75:6–7For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
• Job 5:15–16He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
• Ezek 21:26–27This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.
• 1 Pet 3:21–22And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
• Job 36:6–7He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• Eph 1:20–21which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
• Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
• Acts 2:31–33Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
• Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
• 1 Sam 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

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