Psalms 18:27

God saves the afflicted but brings down the proud. It matters because God lifts the humble and humbles the arrogant.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• 2 Sam 22:28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
• Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• Ps 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
• 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, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
• Isa 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
• Ps 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
• Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Ps 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
• Ps 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
• Luke 1:52–53He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
• Prov 6:16–17There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
• Ps 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
• Prov 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
• Isa 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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