37 Bible Verses about God Lifting People
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He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.
Just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.
As he spoke to me, a wind came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.
Then a wind came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord spoke to me and said, "Go shut yourself in your house.
Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,
A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.
He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.
A wind lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.
Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me.
Then a wind lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched the glory of the Lord filling the temple.
I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.
I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.
"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
For victory does not come from the east or west, or from the wilderness.
He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.
The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly.
As for you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, so I can pay them back!"
Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!
Go, tell Jeroboam, 'This is what the Lord God of Israel says: "I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
"I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam's footsteps and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry.
O Lord, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.
I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.
A psalm -- a song used at the dedication of the temple; by David. I will praise you, O Lord, for you lifted me up, and did not allow my enemies to gloat over me.
"If you indeed obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.
He delivers me from my enemies; you snatch me away from those who attack me; you rescue me from violent men.
He delivers me from my enemies; you snatch me away from those who attack me; you rescue me from violent men.
Now I will triumph over my enemies who surround me! I will offer sacrifices in his dwelling place and shout for joy! I will sing praises to the Lord!
But you, Lord, are a shield that protects me; you are my glory and the one who restores me.
He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.
He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.