He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

“‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.

Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?

For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

From the stream along the road he drinks; then he lifts up his head.

Whenever Moses would raise his hands, then Israel prevailed, but whenever he would rest his hands, then Amalek prevailed.

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

“‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails,

He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.