“He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill, in order to make him sit with nobles, with the nobles of his people.” (Psalms 113:7-8) “He raises.” It is God Who puts one down and sets up another (Psalms 75:7) The Lord God gave Ezekiel a riddle and a parable of a lowly vine plucked and stripped by an eagle indicating that Israel was plundered by Babylon. But the Lord Himself will plant it and make it grow into a majestic cedar prophesying th