Font Size
1 Samuel 2:8-10
The Message
1 Samuel 2:8-10
The Message
6-10 God brings death and God brings life,
brings down to the grave and raises up.
God brings poverty and God brings wealth;
he lowers, he also lifts up.
He puts poor people on their feet again;
he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope,
Restoring dignity and respect to their lives—
a place in the sun!
For the very structures of earth are God’s;
he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.
He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step,
but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark.
No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle!
God’s enemies will be blasted out of the sky,
crashed in a heap and burned.
God will set things right all over the earth,
he’ll give strength to his king,
he’ll set his anointed on top of the world!
1 Samuel 2:8-10
New International Version
1 Samuel 2:8-10
New International Version
8 He raises(A) the poor(B) from the dust(C)
and lifts the needy(D) from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
and has them inherit a throne of honor.(E)
“For the foundations(F) of the earth are the Lord’s;
on them he has set the world.
9 He will guard the feet(G) of his faithful servants,(H)
but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.(I)
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.