for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.
And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!”
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.
Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!
and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.
And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.
he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
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