Psalms 113:7

World English Bible

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump.

English Revised Version
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

Update Bible Version
He raises up the poor out of the dust, And lifts up the needy from the dunghill;

New Century Version
The Lord lifts the poor from the dirt and takes the helpless from the ashes.

New English Translation
He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

Webster's Bible Translation
He raiseth the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

Amplified Bible
He raises the poor out of the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

English Standard Version
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Reisynge a nedi man fro the erthe; and enhaunsinge a pore man fro drit.

Berean Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

Contemporary English Version
God lifts the poor and needy from dust and ashes,

American Standard Version
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

Bible in Basic English
He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

Complete Jewish Bible
He raises the poor from the dust, lifts the needy from the rubbish heap,

Darby Translation
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

Easy-to-Read Version
He lifts the poor out of the dirt and rescues beggars from the garbage dump.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;

King James Version (1611)
He raiseth vp the poore out of the dust: and lifteth the needie out of the dung-hill:

New Life Bible
He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts those in need from the ashes.

New Revised Standard
He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Geneva Bible (1587)
He raiseth the needie out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of the dung,

George Lamsa Translation
He raises up the poor out of the dunghill,

Good News Translation
He raises the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from their misery

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That raiseth, out of the dust, the poor, From the dunghill, uplifteth the needy;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(112-7) Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

Revised Standard Version
He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He rayseth vp the simple out of the dust: and lyfteth vp the poore from the dounghyll.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

Christian Standard Bible®
He raises the poor from the dustand lifts the needy from the trash heap

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

King James Version
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

Lexham English Bible
He raises the helpless from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Literal Translation
He raises up the poor from the dust; He lifts the needy out of the dunghill,

Young's Literal Translation
He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Which taketh vp the symple out of the dust, and lifteth the poore out of the myre.

New American Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the garbage heap,

New King James Version
He raises the poor out of the dust, And lifts the needy out of the ash heap,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Legacy Standard Bible
Who raises the poor from the dustAnd lifts high the needy from the ash heap,

Contextual Overview

¹ Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, Praise the name of Yahweh. ² Blessed be the name of Yahweh, From this time forth and forevermore. ³ From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh's name is to be praised. ⁴ Yahweh is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. ⁵ Who is like Yahweh, our God, Who has his seat on high, ⁶ Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth? ⁷ He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap; ⁸ That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people. ⁹ He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

raiseth: Psalms 75:6, Psalms 75:7, Psalms 107:41, Job 5:11, Job 5:15, Job 5:16, Ezekiel 17:24, Ezekiel 21:26, Ezekiel 21:27, Luke 1:52, Luke 1:53, James 2:5

out of: Psalms 22:15, Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2, Daniel 12:3, Acts 2:31-33, Ephesians 1:20, Ephesians 1:21, 1 Peter 3:21, 1 Peter 3:22

needy: 1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, 1 Samuel 24:14, 2 Samuel 7:8, 2 Samuel 7:9, Job 2:8, Job 36:6, Job 36:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:14 - sent 1 Kings 16:2 - I exalted thee 1 Chronicles 17:8 - made thee 1 Chronicles 29:12 - riches Esther 2:17 - so that he set Job 8:19 - out of the earth Job 34:24 - set Psalms 22:29 - all they that Psalms 78:71 - brought Psalms 107:11 - contemned Psalms 136:23 - in our low estate Proverbs 10:22 - it Ecclesiastes 4:14 - For out Isaiah 40:4 - valley Daniel 2:21 - he removeth Daniel 4:17 - the basest Matthew 4:9 - I give Luke 1:48 - regarded Luke 6:20 - Blessed Luke 14:21 - the poor Acts 7:35 - the same James 1:9 - in James 4:10 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,.... Persons of mean extraction and in low life are sometimes raised by him to great honour and dignity, as Saul, David, and others; and is true of many who are spiritually poor and needy, as all men are, but all are not sensible of it; some are, and these are called poor "in spirit", and are pronounced "blessed", for "theirs is the kingdom of heaven": they are raised out of a low and mean estate, out of the dust of sin, and self-abhorrence for it, in which they lie when convicted of it.

And lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; which denotes a mean condition; so one born in a mean place, and brought up in a mean manner, is sometimes represented as taken out of a dunghill t: and also it is expressive of a filthy one; men by sin are not only brought into a low estate, but into a loathsome one, and are justly abominable in the sight of God, and yet he lifts them out of it: the phrases of "raising up" and "lifting out" suppose them to be fallen, as men are in Adam, fallen from a state of honour and glory, in which he was created, into a state of sin and misery, and out of which they cannot deliver themselves; it is Christ's work, and his only, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to help or lift up his servant Israel,

Isaiah 49:6.

t "Ex sterquilinio effosse", Plauti Casina, Act. 1. Sc. 1. v. 26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust - From the most humble condition in life. He exalts them to conditions of wealth, rank, honor. He has power to do this; he actually does it. This is not intended to be affirmed as a universal truth, or to assert that it is always done, but that it is among the things which show his majesty, his power, and his goodness, and which lay the foundation for praise.

And lifteth the needy out of the dunghill - From the condition of lowest poverty. Instances are sufficiently abundant in which this is done, to justify such an assertion, and to show that it is a proper foundation of praise to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 113:7. He raiseth up the poor — The poorest man, in the meanest and most abject circumstances, is an object of his merciful regards. He may here allude to the wretched state of the captives in Babylon, whom God raised up out of that dust and dunghill. Others apply it to the resurrection of the dead.