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Psalms 107:41
But he lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks.
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1 Samuel 2 7-1 Samuel 2 8
The LORD brings poverty and gives wealth; he humbles and he exalts.He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap. He seats them with noblemen and gives them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s; he has set the world on them.
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Daniel 12:2-3
Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to disgrace and eternal contempt.Those who have insight will shine like the bright expanse of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
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Job 5:11
He sets the lowly on high, and mourners are lifted to safety.
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Ezekiel 21:26-27
“ This is what the Lord GOD says: Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are; exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! Yet this will not happen until he comes; I have given the judgment to him.
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Luke 1:52-53
he has toppled the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly.He has satisfied the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.
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James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
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2 Samuel 7 8-2 Samuel 7 9
“ So now this is what you are to say to my servant David:‘ This is what the LORD of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you. I will make a great name for you like that of the greatest on the earth.
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Job 5:15-16
He saves the needy from their sharp words and from the clutches of the powerful.So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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Job 36:6-7
He does not keep the wicked alive, but he gives justice to the oppressed.He does not withdraw his gaze from the righteous, but he seats them forever with enthroned kings, and they are exalted.
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Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For you will be covered with the morning dew, and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.
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1 Peter 3 21-1 Peter 3 22
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you( not as the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.
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Psalms 75:6-7
Exaltation does not come from the east, the west, or the desert,for God is the Judge: He brings down one and exalts another.
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Ezekiel 17:24
Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring down the tall tree, and make the low tree tall. I cause the green tree to wither and make the withered tree thrive. I, the LORD, have spoken and I will do it.’”
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Job 2:8
Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.
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Psalms 22:15
My strength is dried up like baked clay; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You put me into the dust of death.
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Ephesians 1:20-21
He exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens—far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
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Acts 2:31-33
Seeing what was to come, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah: He was not abandoned in Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.“ God has raised this Jesus; we are all witnesses of this.Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he has poured out what you both see and hear.
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1 Samuel 24 14
Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A single flea?