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Who humbles Himself to regard
The heavens and the earth?
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He raises the poor out of the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,
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That He may seat them with princes,
With the princes of His people.

Cross References

Psalm 107:41

Yet He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction,
And makes their families like a flock.

1 Samuel 2:7-8

“The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and He lifts up.

1 Samuel 24:14

After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue [with three thousand men]? A dead dog, a single flea?

2 Samuel 7:8-9

So now, say this to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

Job 2:8

And Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes (rubbish heaps).

Job 5:11

So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And He lifts to safety those who mourn.

Job 5:15-16

“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.

Job 36:6-7

“He does not prolong the life of the wicked,
But gives the afflicted their justice.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.

Psalm 75:6-7

For not from the east, nor from the west,
Nor from the desert comes exaltation.

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will live;
Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field will know that I the Lord bring down the tall tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will fulfill it.”

Ezekiel 21:26-27

thus says the Lord God, ‘Remove the turban and take off the crown; things shall not remain as they have been. Exalt that which is low and abase the high.

Daniel 12:2-3

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake (resurrect), these to everlasting life, but some to disgrace and everlasting contempt (abhorrence).

Luke 1:52-53

“He has brought down rulers from their thrones,
And exalted those who were humble.

Acts 2:31-33

he foresaw and spoke [prophetically] of the resurrection of the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), that He was not abandoned [in death] to Hades (the realm of the dead), nor did His body undergo decay.

Ephesians 1:20-21

which He produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and [as believers to be] heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

1 Peter 3:21-22

Corresponding to that [rescue through the flood], baptism [which is an expression of a believer’s new life in Christ] now saves you, not by removing dirt from the body, but by an appeal to God for a good (clear) conscience, [demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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