⁷ Yahweh makes poor and makes rich;
    he brings low and also exalts.

⁸ He raises up the poor from the dust.
    From the ash heap he lifts up the needy,
to cause them to sit with noble people
    and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor.
For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh
    and he has set the inhabited world on them.

⁷ He raises the helpless from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap,
⁸ to seat them with princes,
with the princes of his people.
⁹ He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell
as the happy mother of children.
Praise Yah!^[a]