24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; (A)I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up (B)the green tree, and make (C)the dry tree flourish. (D)I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

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10 (A)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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40 (A)he pours contempt on princes
    and (B)makes them wander (C)in trackless wastes;
41 but (D)he raises up the needy out of affliction
    and (E)makes their families like flocks.

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14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For (A)everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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11 he (A)sets on high those who are lowly,
    and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
12 He (B)frustrates the devices of the crafty,
    so that their hands achieve no success.
13 He (C)catches the wise in their own craftiness,
    and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

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(A)The Lord kills and brings to life;
    he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
(B)The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
    (C)he brings low and he exalts.
(D)He raises up the poor from the dust;
    he lifts the needy from the ash heap
(E)to make them sit with princes
    and inherit a seat of honor.
(F)For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's,
    and on them he has set the world.

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who (A)looks far down
    on the heavens and the earth?
He (B)raises the poor from the dust
    and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
to make them (C)sit with princes,
    with the princes of his people.

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14 For he went (A)from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor.

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Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and (A)the rich in his humiliation, because (B)like a flower of the grass[a] he will pass away.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:10 Or a wild flower

(A)Is not this (B)the carpenter, the son of Mary and (C)brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And (D)they took offense at him.

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The Restoration of Israel

11 “In that day (A)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,

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24 He (A)shatters the mighty without investigation
    and sets (B)others in their place.
25 Thus, knowing their works,
    he (C)overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
26 He strikes them for their wickedness
    in a place for all to see,
27 because they turned aside from (D)following him
    and had no regard for any of his ways,
28 so that they (E)caused the cry of the poor to come to him,
    and he (F)heard the cry of the afflicted—

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(A)The bows of the mighty are broken,
    but the feeble bind on strength.

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