⁶ Yahweh kills and restores alive,
    he brings down to Sheol^[a] and raises up.
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.