He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill; Treasury of Scripture raiseth Psalm 75:6,7 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south... Psalm 107:41 Yet sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes him families like a flock. Job 5:11,15,16 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety... Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree... Ezekiel 21:26,27 Thus said the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low... Luke 1:52,53 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree... James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith... out of Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death. Isaiah 26:19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust... Daniel 12:2,3 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt... Ephesians 1:20,21 Which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places... 1 Peter 3:21,22 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh... needy 1 Samuel 2:7,8 The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up... 1 Samuel 24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 2 Samuel 7:8,9 Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote... Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes. Job 36:6,7 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor...
Context The Lord Exalts the Humble
1Praise you the LORD. Praise, O you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. 2Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for ever more. 3From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised. 4The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 5Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high, 6Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! 7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill; 8That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. 9He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill::
Darby Bible Translation
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,
King James Bible
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
Young's Literal Translation
He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.
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