Psalm 18:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost 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

Thou dost deliver a humble people, but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.

Psalm 10:4

In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Psalm 101:5

Him who slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. The man of haughty looks and arrogant heart I will not endure.

Psalm 17:10

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

Psalm 17:13

Arise, O Lord! confront them, overthrow them! Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

Psalm 34:6

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 40:17

As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord takes thought for me. Thou art my help and my deliverer; do not tarry, O my God!

Psalm 9:18

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

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

Their partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon 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 him who is of a contrite and humble 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, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and 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 house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

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

James 2:5

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