Job 8:19

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

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

who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ”

David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”

the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”