Psalms 138:6

Though Yahweh is exalted on high, He cares for the lowly and keeps the proud at a distance.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 113:5–6Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
• 1 Sam 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
• Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Prov 3:34Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• 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.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Luke 1:48for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
• 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.”
• 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
• 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.
• Acts 12:22–23The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
• Isa 2:11The 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.
• Luke 1:51–53He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Dan 5:20–24But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• Ezek 28:2–9Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
• Job 40:11–12Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
• Ps 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”

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