Lifts

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.

But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

…the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.