He raises(A) the poor(B) from the dust(C)
    and lifts the needy(D) from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
    and has them inherit a throne of honor.(E)

“For the foundations(F) of the earth are the Lord’s;
    on them he has set the world.

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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.

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When the earth and all its people quake,(A)
    it is I who hold its pillars(B) firm.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 75:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

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