He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap; that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
⛓ 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.
'Has exalted the lowly' reflects Psalm 113:7-8, 'He raises the poor from the dust... to make them sit with princes.' Psalm 113 (a Hallel psalm) shares both the lifting-the-lowly motif and its own debt to Hannah; high volume within the reversal cluster.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God 'who comforts the lowly' resonates with the psalmic motif of God raising the poor from the dust and lifting the needy to sit with princes. The reversal-of-the-lowly theme coheres with Paul's self-description as cast down then comforted, but the volume is low and the link is conceptual rather than verbal. Contested as a general lowliness-exaltation topos.
Low confidence