TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in NET.
He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes– he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD– he placed the world on them.
“So now, say this to my servant David:‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.
Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.
All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!’”
Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake– some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?