1 Samuel 2:7

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord brings poverty and gives wealth;he humbles and he exalts.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.

King James Version
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts.

English Standard Version
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.

New Century Version
The Lord makes some people poor, and others he makes rich. He makes some people humble, and others he makes great.

New English Translation
The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.

Amplified Bible
"The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and He lifts up.

New American Standard Bible
"The LORD makes poor and rich; He humbles, He also exalts.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich: bringeth lowe, and exalteth.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh makes poor and rich;He brings low; He also exalts.

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord , you are the one who makes us rich or poor. You put some in high positions and bring disgrace on others.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai makes poor, and he makes rich; he humbles, and he exalts.

Darby Translation
Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up:

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord makes some poor, and he makes others rich. He humbles some people, and he honors others.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he also exalts.

Good News Translation
He makes some people poor and others rich; he humbles some and makes others great.

Literal Translation
Jehovah brings down, and He gives riches; He brings low; yea, He lifts up high.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE maketh poore and maketh riche: He bryngeth lowe and exalteth.

American Standard Version
Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lord maketh poore, and maketh ryche, bringeth lowe, and heaueth vp on hye.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; He bringeth low, He also lifteth up.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord maketh poore, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth vp.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.

English Revised Version
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, he also lifteth up.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord makith pore, and makith riche; he makith low, and reisith.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

Update Bible Version
Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

World English Bible
Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.

New King James Version
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.

New Living Translation
The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up.

New Life Bible
The Lord makes poor and makes rich. He brings low and He lifts up.

New Revised Standard
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, maketh poor, and enricheth, - Layeth low, yea exalteth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:

Revised Standard Version
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts.

Contextual Overview

¹ Hannah prayed: I'm bursting with God -news! I'm walking on air. I'm laughing at my rivals. I'm dancing my salvation. ²Nothing and no one is holy like God , no rock mountain like our God. Don't dare talk pretentiously— not a word of boasting, ever! For God knows what's going on. He takes the measure of everything that happens. The weapons of the strong are smashed to pieces, while the weak are infused with fresh strength. The well-fed are out begging in the streets for crusts, while the hungry are getting second helpings. The barren woman has a houseful of children, while the mother of many is bereft. ⁶ God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up. God brings poverty and God brings wealth; he lowers, he also lifts up. He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives— a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God 's; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation. He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! God 's enemies will be blasted out of the sky, crashed in a heap and burned. God will set things right all over the earth, he'll give strength to his king, he'll set his anointed on top of the world!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

maketh: Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, Job 1:21, Job 5:11, Psalms 102:10

bringeth: Psalms 75:7, Isaiah 2:12, James 1:9, James 1:10, James 4:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:2 - General Genesis 41:14 - sent Leviticus 25:47 - sojourner or stranger wax rich Ruth 1:21 - and the 1 Samuel 15:28 - hath given 1 Samuel 30:23 - which the Lord 1 Chronicles 29:12 - riches 2 Chronicles 28:19 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 32:29 - God Job 12:9 - the hand Job 22:18 - he filled Job 36:22 - God Job 42:10 - the Lord Psalms 49:2 - General Psalms 78:71 - brought Psalms 113:7 - needy Psalms 136:23 - in our low estate Psalms 138:6 - Though Proverbs 10:22 - it Proverbs 22:2 - rich Jeremiah 49:15 - General Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Ezekiel 17:24 - have brought Ezekiel 21:26 - exalt Daniel 2:21 - he removeth Daniel 9:16 - according Obadiah 1:2 - General Matthew 4:9 - I give Romans 9:17 - I raised

Cross-References

Genesis 2:15
God took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order.

Genesis 2:21
God put the Man into a deep sleep. As he slept he removed one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh. God then used the rib that he had taken from the Man to make Woman and presented her to the Man.

Genesis 3:23
So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they'd been made. He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.

Numbers 16:22
They threw themselves on their faces and said, "O God, God of everything living, when one man sins are you going to take it out on the whole community?"

Psalms 100:3
Know this: God is God, and God, God . He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.

Proverbs 20:27
God is in charge of human life, watching and examining us inside and out.

Isaiah 2:22
Quit scraping and fawning over mere humans, so full of themselves, so full of hot air! Can't you see there's nothing to them?

Isaiah 64:8
Still, God , you are our Father. We're the clay and you're our potter: All of us are what you made us. Don't be too angry with us, O God . Don't keep a permanent account of wrongdoing. Keep in mind, please, we are your people—all of us. Your holy cities are all ghost towns: Zion's a ghost town, Jerusalem's a field of weeds. Our holy and beautiful Temple, which our ancestors filled with your praises, Was burned down by fire, all our lovely parks and gardens in ruins. In the face of all this, are you going to sit there unmoved, God ? Aren't you going to say something? Haven't you made us miserable long enough?

Zechariah 12:1
War Bulletin: God 's Message concerning Israel, God 's Decree—the very God who threw the skies into space, set earth on a firm foundation, and breathed his own life into men and women: "Watch for this: I'm about to turn Jerusalem into a cup of strong drink that will have the people who have set siege to Judah and Jerusalem staggering in a drunken stupor.

John 20:22
Then he took a deep breath and breathed into them. "Receive the Holy Spirit," he said. "If you forgive someone's sins, they're gone for good. If you don't forgive sins, what are you going to do with them?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich,.... Which is true in a natural sense of the same persons, as might be exemplified in the case of Job; and of different persons, as in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus; for both poverty and riches are of God, see

Proverbs 22:2. Poverty is of God; for though it is sometimes owing to a man's own conduct, yet that there is such a difference among men in general, that some should be poor, and others rich, is owing to the wise providence of God, that men may be dependent on one another. Riches are of God, and are the gifts of his bountiful providence; for though they are oftentimes the fruits of industry and diligence, as means, yet not always; and whenever they are, they are to be ascribed to the blessing of God attending the diligent hand. This is also true in a spiritual sense; for though spiritual poverty is owing to the fall of Adam, and to the actual sins and transgressions of men, whereby they become poor and miserable, yet all this is not without the knowledge and will of God: and it is he that makes men sensible of their poverty, and then makes them rich in spiritual things, with his own grace, and the blessings of it, with the riches of grace here, and of glory hereafter; all which flow from the good will of God, who has laid up much for his people, bestowed much on them, and entitles them to more; and which come to them through the poverty of Christ, who, though he was rich, became poor, that they through his poverty might be made rich, 2 Corinthians 8:9 he bringeth low, and lifteth up; which has been verified in the same persons, as in Job, Nebuchadnezzar, c. and in different persons, for he puts down one, and raises up another so he rejected Saul from being king, and took David from the sheepfold, debased Haman, and raised Mordecai to great dignity: and, in a spiritual sense, the Lord shows men the low estate and condition they are brought into by sin, humbles them under a sense of it, brings down their proud spirits to sit at the feet of Jesus, and to submit to him, and to his righteousness; and he lifts them up by his son out of their fallen, captive, and miserable estate, and by his Spirit and grace brings them out of the horrible pit of nature into the state of grace; sets them upon the rock Christ, and makes their mountain to stand strong by the discoveries of his love, and will at last lift them up to glory, and place them on the same throne with Christ.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:7. The Lord maketh poor — For many cannot bear affluence, and if God should continue to trust them with riches, they would be their ruin.

Maketh rich — Some he can trust, and therefore makes them stewards of his secular bounty.