Psalms 18:27

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

ASV

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

LSV

For You save a poor people, || And cause the eyes of the high to fall.

YLT

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

DBY

For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

DRC17:28

For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

GNV

Thus thou wilt saue the poore people, and wilt cast downe the proude lookes.

JPS18:28

For Thou dost save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes Thou dost humble.

LXXE17:28

For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud.

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WLC18:28

כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה עַם־עָנִ֣י תוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינַ֖יִם רָמ֣וֹת תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃KJV:Ps.18.27

LXX-Br17:28

Ὅτι σὺ λαὸν ταπεινὸν σώσεις, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑπερηφάνων ταπεινώσεις.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• 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…
• 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?
• 2 Samuel 22:28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
• 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.
• Psalms 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
• 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.
• 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.
• Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
• Luke 1:52–53He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
• 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.
• Proverbs 6:16–17There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
• Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
• Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
• Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

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