Psalms 18:27

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“For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.”

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BSBPD

“For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.”

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“For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 18:27 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Samuel 22:28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
  2. Psalms 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
  3. Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
  4. Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
  5. Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
  6. Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
  7. Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
  8. Psalms 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.
  9. Psalms 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.
  10. Proverbs 6:16There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
  11. Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
  12. Isaiah 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.
  13. Isaiah 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.
  14. Isaiah 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.
  15. Isaiah 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.
  16. Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  17. Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
  18. 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.”
  19. 2 Corinthians 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.
  20. James 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?

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