For exaltation comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

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

yet He exalts the poor out of affliction, and makes their families like a flock.

He sets the lowly on high, and those who mourn are exalted to safety;

But He saves the needy from the sword, from the mouth of the mighty, and from their hand.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

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.

thus says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; nothing shall remain as it was. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted.

Ruin, ruin! I will ruin it! It shall be no more, until He comes whose right it is. And I will give it to Him.

He puts down the mighty from their thrones, and exalts the lowly.

He fills the hungry with good things, and the rich He sends away empty.

Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.

Your dead ones shall live, together with My dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of the light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting abhorrence.

And the prudent shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.

he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.

Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

far above all rule and authority and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

There is also an antitype which now saves us; immersion (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who has gone into Heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

Jehovah makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.

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.

After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After a flea?

Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: I have taken you from the pastures, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.

And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth.

And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself; and he sat down in the middle of the ashes.

He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the lowly.

He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, for He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.