1 Samuel 2:7-9

Living Bible

⁷ Some he causes to be poor

And others to be rich.

He cuts one down

And lifts another up.

⁸ He lifts the poor from the dust—

Yes, from a pile of ashes—

And treats them as princes

Sitting in the seats of honor.

For all the earth is the Lord’s

And he has set the world in order.

⁹ He will protect his godly ones,

But the wicked shall be silenced in darkness.

No one shall succeed by strength alone.