Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 113:7

“He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;”

Psalms 113:7 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 113:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Samuel 2:7The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
  • Luke 1:52He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
  • Psalms 107:41Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
  • Job 5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
  • 2 Samuel 7:8Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be r…
  • Ezekiel 17:24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, an…
  • Daniel 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Psalms 75:6For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
  • Job 5:15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
  • Job 36:6He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
  • Isaiah 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and t…
  • James 2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that l…

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