Psalm 18:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But wilt bring down high looks.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ For You deliver an afflicted and humble people but will bring down those with haughty looks.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

Common English Bible

²⁷ You are the one who saves people who suffer and brings down those with proud eyes.

Psalm 18:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:28

You deliver a humble people, but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.

Psalm 10:4

In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”; all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Psalm 101:5

One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.

Psalm 17:10

They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

Psalm 17:13

Rise up, O Lord, confront them, overthrow them! By your sword deliver my life from the wicked,

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all.

Psalm 34:6

This poor soul cried and was heard by the Lord and was saved from every trouble.

Psalm 40:17

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.

Psalm 9:18

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.

Isaiah 10:12

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them, for they have brought evil on themselves.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit who trembles at my word.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?