2 Samuel 22:28

God saves the afflicted but humbles the haughty. He lifts up the lowly and brings down the proud.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 72:12–13For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
• Isa 5:15So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
• Exod 3:7–8Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• Jas 4:6–7But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Isa 2:11–12The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
• Ps 138:6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
• Exod 9:14–17For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
• Ps 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
• Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Isa 37:28–29But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Isa 37:23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Prov 21:4A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
• Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Job 40:11–12Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

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