that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end, and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

That which was sown on stony places, this is he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy;

yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when affliction or persecution arises because of the Word, immediately he stumbles.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and He set the world upon them.

But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another.

He raises the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap,

And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.