Psalms 113:7
5 Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
6 He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
8 to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.
9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- KJV
- He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
- WEB
- He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
- ASV
- He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;
- DARBY
- He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,
- BLB
- raising up the poor from the dust. He lifts high the needy one from the ash heap,
- ÅB
- som reiser den ringe av støvet, opphøyer den fattige av skarnet
- OTB
- Han løfter de fattige fra støvet,
Han reiser de trengende fra askehaugene, - B1930
- som reiser den ringe av støvet, ophøier den fattige av skarnet
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Samuel 2:7–8
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Read in contextLuke 1:52–53
He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
Read in contextPsalms 107:41
But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
Read in contextJob 5:11
He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
Read in context2 Samuel 7:8–9
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
Read in contextEzekiel 17:24
Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
Read in contextDaniel 12:2–3
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Read in contextPsalms 75:6–7
For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
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