1 Samuel 2:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸He lifts the poor from the dust
    and raises the needy from their misery.
He makes them companions of princes
    and puts them in places of honor.
The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord;
    on them he has built the world.

⁹“He protects the lives of his faithful people,
    but the wicked disappear in darkness;
    a man does not triumph by his own strength.
¹⁰The Lord's enemies will be destroyed;
    he will thunder against them from heaven.
The Lord will judge the whole world;
    he will give power to his king,
    he will make his chosen king victorious.”