Psalm 113:7
[He] raises [the] helpless from [the] dust; he lifts [the] needy from [the] ash heap,
Psalm 107:41
But he protects [the] needy from misery, and he makes [their] families like a flock.
1 Samuel 2:7-8
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea?
2 Samuel 7:8-9
So then, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture {from following} the sheep to be a leader over my people, over Israel,
Job 2:8
{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.
Job 5:11
to set [the] lowly on high, and [those] mourning are lifted to safety.
Job 5:15-16
And he saves from the sword of their mouth, {even} [the] poor from the hand of the strong.
Job 36:6-7
He does not keep [the] wicked alive but grants justice [to the] afflicted.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.
Psalm 75:6-7
For [it is] not from [the] east or [the] west and not from [the] south [that] lifting up [comes],
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead shall live; {their corpses} shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of [the] dust, for your dew [is] {celestial dew}, and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.
Ezekiel 17:24
And all of the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, I will bring low a high tree, [and] I will exalt a low, fresh tree, and I will make a dry tree flourish. I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will do [it].'"
Ezekiel 21:26-27
thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Remove the turban and lift off the crown; things [are] no longer the same. Exalt the low and bring low the high.
Daniel 12:2-3
And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.
Luke 1:52-53
He has brought down rulers from [their] thrones, and has exalted the lowly.
Acts 2:31-33
[by] having foreseen [this], he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay.
Ephesians 1:20-21
which he has worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places],
James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
1 Peter 3:21-22
And also, corresponding to [this], baptism now saves you, not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,