Luke 1:48

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Summary

For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

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Regarded

She vowed a vow, and said, "LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head."

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's. He has set the world on them.

Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For consider your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly favored one. The Lord is with you."

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the crowd lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you."

Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.

"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.