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1 Samuel 2:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 8 He raises the lowly one from the dust;
  He lifts up the poor from the ash heap,*+
  To make them sit with princes,
  Giving them a seat of honor.
  
  To Jehovah belong earth’s supports,+
  And he places the productive land upon them.

1 Samuel 2:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 8 He raises the lowly one from the dust;
  He lifts up the poor from the ash heap,*+
  To make them sit with princes,
  Giving them a seat of honor.
  
  To Jehovah belong earth’s supports,+
  And he places the productive land upon them.

1 Samuel 2:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 8 A Raiser of a lowly one from the dust;+
  From the ashpit he lifts up a poor one,+
  To make them sit with nobles; and a throne of glory+ he gives to them as a possession.+
  For to Jehovah belong earth’s supports,+
  And he places upon them the productive land.*

1 Samuel 2:8

The Bible in Living English
- 8 Lifts the poor man from the dust, raises the needy
  man from the rubbish-dump,
  to seat him with nobles and allot to him a throne of glory;
  For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s,
  and he has set the world upon them.

1 Samuel 2:8

American Standard Version
- 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s, And he hath set the world upon them.

1 Samuel 2:8

King James Version
- 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them.