⁷ Yahweh makes poor and makes rich;
    he brings low and also exalts.
⁸ He raises up the poor from the dust.
    From the ash heap he lifts up the needy,
to cause them to sit with noble people
    and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor.
For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh
    and he has set the inhabited world on them.
⁹ He will guard the feet of his faithful^[a] ones,
    but the wicked will be destroyed^[b] in the darkness,
    because a man will not prevail by his might.