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 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
• Luke 1:52–53He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.
• Ps 107:41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
• Job 5:11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
• 2 Sam 7:8–9Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
• Dan 12:2–3Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Ezek 17:24All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’”
• Ps 75:6–7For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
• Job 5:15–16But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
• Ezek 21:26–27thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
• 1 Pet 3:21–22This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
• Job 36:6–7He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Eph 1:20–21which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
• Job 2:8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
• Acts 2:31–33he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
• Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
• 1 Sam 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

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