Out of the dust, i.e. out of their low and miserable condition, as this phrase is used, 1 Kings 16:2 Psalms 113:7 Compare Job 16:15 Psalms 22:15. From the dunghill; from the most sordid place and mean estate. Compare 1 Kings 16:2 Job 36:11 Psalms 7:5. Dunghill; which the poor are said to embrace, Lamentations 4:5. To make them inherit; not only possess themselves, but transfer them to their posterity, as hath oft happened in the world; or, possess. The throne of glory, i.e. a glorious throne or kingdom. The pillars; either,
1. The foundations of the earth, which God created and upholds, and wherewith he sustains the earth find all its inhabitants, as a house is supported with pillars; and therefore it is not strange if he disposeth of persons and things therein as he pleaseth. Or,
2. The princes or governors of the earth, which are called the corners, or corner-stones, of a land or people, Judges 20:2 1 Samuel 14:38 Zephaniah 3:6, and are fitly called pillars, because they uphold the world, and keep it from sinking into confusion. See Psalms 74:2 Jeremiah 1:18 Revelation 3:12. And these are here said to be the Lord s, by creation and constitution, because he advanceth them to their state, and preserves them in it, Proverbs 8:15,16, and puts the world, or the kingdoms of the world, upon them, as burdens upon their shoulders: see Isaiah 9:6.