1 Samuel 2:7-9

New Living Translation

⁷ The Lord makes some poor and others rich;
    he brings some down and lifts others up.
⁸ He lifts the poor from the dust
    and the needy from the garbage dump.
He sets them among princes,
    placing them in seats of honor.
For all the earth is the Lord’s,
    and he has set the world in order.

⁹ “He will protect his faithful ones,
    but the wicked will disappear in darkness.
No one will succeed by strength alone.