Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 113:7

7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust , and lifteth the needy out of the dunghil:

Yea he stoops so low as to regard and advance those whom all men, and even their own brethren slight and despise.

From a most contemptible and miserable condition. Beggers and mourners used to lie in the dust, or, as it follows, upon the dunghil, 1 Sam. 2. 8. Lament. 4. 5.

Marginal references: Sam 2. 8. [illegible: 1 word] 107. 41.