Psalms 113:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He raiseth up the poor; yea, he stoops so low as to regard and advance those whom all men, and even their own brethren, slight and despise. Out of the dust; from a most contemptible and miserable condition. Beggars and mourners used to lie in the dust, or, as it follows, upon the dunghill, 1 Samuel 2:8 Lamentations 4:5.

Psalms 113:7

7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;