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 66:2For 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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