Psalm 113:7

Young's Literal Translation 1898

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

Cross References

1 Kings 16:2

‘Because that I have raised thee up out of the dust, and appoint thee leader over My people Israel, and thou walkest in the way of Jeroboam, and causest My people Israel to sin — to provoke Me to anger with their sins;

Job 2:8

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

To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.

Psalm 107:41

And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

Psalm 22:15

Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

Isaiah 26:19

‘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.

Ezekiel 17:24

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]!’

James 2:5

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?

1 Samuel 24:14

‘After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? — after a dead dog! after one flea!