Psalm 113:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

1 Kings 16:2

“Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.

Job 5:11

he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

Psalm 107:41

but he raises up the needy out of affliction, and makes their families like flocks.

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall.

Ezekiel 17:24

And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.”

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

1 Samuel 24:14

After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!