“He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 113 contains 9 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.