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 maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
• Luke 1:52–53He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
• Ps 107:41Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
• Job 5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
• 2 Sam 7:8–9Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
• Dan 12:2–3And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Ezek 17:24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
• Ps 75:6–7For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
• Job 5:15–16But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
• Ezek 21:26–27Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
• 1 Pet 3:21–22The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
• Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
• Job 36:6–7He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
• Jas 2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
• Eph 1:20–21Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
• Job 2:8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
• Acts 2:31–33He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
• Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
• 1 Sam 24:14After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

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