He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from f
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting co
Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I d
For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt th
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He
He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.
And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a
which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.