Psalms 113:7

World English Bible (2000)

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

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  • Ps 107:41 : 41 Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
  • 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. 8 He 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.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, 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?
  • 2 Sam 7:8-9 : 8 Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel. 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
  • Job 2:8 : 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
  • Job 5:11 : 11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
  • Job 36:6-7 : 6 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right. 7 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 My 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.
  • Ps 75:6-7 : 6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation. 7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
  • 1 Pet 3:21-22 : 21 This 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, 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your 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 forth the dead.
  • Ezek 17:24 : 24 All the trees of the field shall 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.
  • Ezek 21:26-27 : 26 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
  • Dan 12:2-3 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
  • Luke 1:52-53 : 52 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly. 53 He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
  • Acts 2:31-33 : 31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. 32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
  • Eph 1:20-21 : 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

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    6"Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

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    8that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

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    40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

    41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

  • Ps 113:5-6
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    5Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

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    6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

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    11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

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    52He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

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    6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

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    29When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

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    14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

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    12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

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    5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

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    1Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

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    10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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    10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

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    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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    7But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

  • Jas 1:9
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    4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

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    13The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

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    19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

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    27For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

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    6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

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    19The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

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    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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    21Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.