All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
All they that be fat - not only the poor and. "meek" of this world, but the rich (as "fattest" is used, Psalms 78:31; an image from fat cattle, Ezekiel 34:20) shall "eat" of the spiritual feast (cf. Song of Solomon 5:1). The wealth of the rich cannot buy the one inestimable viand, without which they are spiritually destitute-the body and blood of Christ, by faith made the food of the soul. On the other hand, no degree of poverty, temporal or spiritual, excludes any from it. All alike are before God spiritually poor; to all alike God in Christ is spiritually "rich" (Romans 10:12).
Down to the dust - even as Christ was 'brought into the dust of death' (Psalms 22:15). They, too, like their Lord, and "together with" their Lord, shall be quickened at the resurrection ultimately (Isaiah 26:19; John 5:25; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22). So spiritually now (Psalms 143:7; Psalms 119:25).
Shall bow before him. His meritorious obedience and death shall be the ground of all, both these flourishing on earth, and those sleeping in the dust, being made to "bow before Him" (Philippians 2:6-11).
None can keep alive - `maketh alive.' Implying that alike Christ as man, and His spiritual "seed," owe their quickening out of "the dust" to the power of God. Christ was "put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit" (1 Peter 3:18). The Father raised Him with His right hand. Thus the connection with the context is: Alike the rich who enjoy the fullness of life, and the abject who lie dead in the dust, shall bow before Him, even as all draw all life from Him (Psalms 22:26, end); because none can quicken (so translate, as in Deuteronomy 32:39. "make alive") his own soul."