Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

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

“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

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.