Psalm 113:7
He lifts the poor from the dust. He lifts the needy from a garbage heap.
Psalm 107:41
He lifts needy people high above suffering and makes their families like flocks.
1 Samuel 2:7-8
Jehovah takes away and He gives riches. He brings low and lifts up high.
1 Samuel 24:14
Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I am as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.
2 Samuel 7:8-9
Say this to my servant David: 'This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture where you followed sheep so that you could be the leader of my people Israel.
Job 2:8
Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.
Job 5:11
He sets on high the lowly people. He lifts those who mourn to safety.
Job 5:15-16
He saves people from the sword (slander) of their mouth. He saves the needy from the power of the mighty.
Job 36:6-7
He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights.
Psalm 22:15
My power is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.
Psalm 75:6-7
There is no exaltation from the east, or from the west, or from the desert.
Isaiah 26:19
But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
Ezekiel 17:24
Every tree in the forest will know that I, Jehovah, can bring down tall trees and help short ones grow. I dry up green trees and make dry ones green. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will keep my word.'
Ezekiel 21:26-27
I, the Lord Jehovah, have spoken. Take off your crown and your turban. Nothing will be the same again. Raise the poor to power! Bring down those who are ruling! Bring low the high one.
Daniel 12:2-3
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Luke 1:52-53
He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble.
Acts 2:31-33
He seeing this before spoke about the resurrection of Christ. That he would not be left in the grave and his flesh did not see corruption.
Ephesians 1:20-21
He operated in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places.
James 2:5
Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?
1 Peter 3:21-22
This was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God for a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.