1Sa 2:7-8, 2Ch 25:8, Psa 30:6-7, 73:18-20, 147:6, 2Cor 4:9 | ESV | STEP | The Lord makes poor and makes rich ; he brings low and he exalts .

1 Samuel 2:7-8

7 ^aThe Lord makes poor and makes rich;
^bhe brings low and he exalts.
8 ^cHe raises up the poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap
^dto make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
^eFor the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and on them he has set the world.

2 Chronicles 25:8

8 But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? ^fFor God has power to help or to cast down.”

Psalms 30:6-7

6 As for me, I said in my ^gprosperity,
“I shall never be ^hmoved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord,
you made my ⁱmountain stand strong;
you ^jhid your face;
I was ^kdismayed.

Psalms 73:18-20

18 Truly you set them in ^lslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed ^min a moment,
swept away utterly by ⁿterrors!
20 Like ^oa dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when ^pyou rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

Psalms 147:6

6 The Lord ^qlifts up the humble; ^{▼▼Or afflicted}
he casts the wicked to the ground.

2 Corinthians 4:9

9 persecuted, but ^snot forsaken; ^tstruck down, but not destroyed;