Psalms 18:27

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
  • Prov 6:16-17 : 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 The 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.
  • Isa 10:12 : 12 Therefore 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.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For 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.
  • Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
  • Luke 1:52-53 : 52 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly. 53 He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 I 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."
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For 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.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, 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?
  • 2 Sam 22:28 : 28 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
  • Ps 9:18 : 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
  • Ps 17:13 : 13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
  • Ps 34:6 : 6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
  • Ps 40:17 : 17 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

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    29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

    30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

  • 15 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

  • 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

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    11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

    12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

  • 28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

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    11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

    12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

  • 6 Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

  • 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

  • 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

  • 23 A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

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    5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

    6 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy."

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    3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

    4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.

  • 6 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

  • 18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

  • 8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

  • 7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

  • 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

  • 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

  • 14 Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

  • 14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • 4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

  • 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

  • 4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

  • 19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

  • 15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

  • 7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

  • 52 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

  • 13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

  • 12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

  • 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

  • 18 Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.

  • 6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • 23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."

  • 17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

  • 34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.