He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
⛓ Read Psalm 113 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes.' James 2:5's election of the poor to royal inheritance draws on this reversal-of-status theme common to the Psalms of the anawim.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He raiseth up the poor out of the dust' resonates faintly with the beggar at the gate being raised up; thematic coherence with God lifting the destitute, but no verbal borrowing.
Low confidence