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For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
Psalms 18:27 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
  • BSB For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
  • NKJV For You will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty looks.
  • NASB For You save an afflicted people, But You humiliate haughty eyes.
  • NLT You rescue the humble, but you humiliate the proud.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • 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.
  • Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • 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.
  • 2 Sam 22:28You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
  • Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
  • Ps 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
  • 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  • Isa 10:12Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
  • Ps 17:13Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
  • Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
  • Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
  • Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
  • Ps 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
  • Luke 1:52–53He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.
  • Prov 6:16–17There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
  • Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
  • Prov 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
  • Isa 3:9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
  • 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.”

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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

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