He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's, and upon them He has set the world.
Psalm 107:41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
Treasury of Scripture
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;
raiseth
Psalm 75:6,7
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south…
Psalm 107:41
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Job 5:11,15,16
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety…
out of
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Daniel 12:2,3
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt…
needy
1 Samuel 2:7,8
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up…
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
2 Samuel 7:8,9
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: …
