Verse 7

He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:41 : 41 And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.
  • 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high. 8 He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause `them' to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah `are' the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?
  • 2 Sam 7:8-9 : 8 and now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the comely place, from after the flock, to be leader over My people, over Israel; 9 and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast gone, and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence, and have made for thee a great name, as the name of the great ones who `are' in the earth,
  • Job 2:8 : 8 And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
  • Job 5:11 : 11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high `in' safety.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy, 16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
  • Job 36:6-7 : 6 He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth; 7 He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And `from' kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.
  • Ps 75:6-7 : 6 For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness -- `is' elevation. 7 But God `is' judge, This He maketh low -- and this He lifteth up.
  • 1 Pet 3:21-22 : 21 also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ, 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
  • Ezek 17:24 : 24 And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done `it'!'
  • Ezek 21:26-27 : 26 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This -- not this -- the low make high, And the high make low. 27 An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, Also this hath not been till the coming of Him, Whose `is' the judgment, and I have given it.
  • Dan 12:2-3 : 2 `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during. 3 And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.
  • Luke 1:52-53 : 52 He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly, 53 The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,
  • Acts 2:31-33 : 31 having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 32 `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; 33 at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;
  • Eph 1:20-21 : 20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places', 21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 `After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!