Psalm 113:7

New American Bible - revised edition

He raises the needy from the dust, lifts the poor from the ash heap,

Cross References

1 Kings 16:2

Inasmuch as I exalted you from the dust and made you ruler of my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger by their sins,

Job 2:8

He took a potsherd to scrape himself, as he sat among the ashes.

Job 5:11

He sets up the lowly on high, and those who mourn are raised to safety.

Psalm 107:41

While he released the poor man from affliction, and increased their families like flocks.

Psalm 22:15

Like water my life drains away; all my bones are disjointed. My heart has become like wax, it melts away within me.

Isaiah 26:19

But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise! Awake and sing, you who lie in the dust! For your dew is a dew of light, and you cause the land of shades to give birth.

Ezekiel 17:24

Every tree of the field will know that I am the Lord. I bring low the high tree, lift high the lowly tree, Wither up the green tree, and make the dry tree bloom. As I, the Lord, have spoken, so will I do!

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

1 Samuel 24:14

As the old proverb says, ‘From the wicked comes wickedness.’ Thus I will not lay a hand on you.