2 Samuel 22:28 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁸ “For You save the humble people, But Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And the afflicted people thou wilt save: But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And the afflicted people You will deliver, but Your eyes are upon the haughty, whom You will bring down.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Common English Bible

²⁸ You are the one who saves people who suffer, but your eyes are against the proud. You bring them down!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And you will bring to salvation the poor people, and you will humble the exalted with your eyes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.

2 Samuel 22:28 Cross References

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise, says יהוה, “I set in safety – he pants for it.”

Psalm 131:1

O יהוה, my heart has not been proud, Nor have my eyes been haughty. Neither have I concerned myself with great matters, Nor with those too wondrous for me.

Psalm 138:6

Though יהוה is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance.

Psalm 140:12

I have known that יהוה maintains The cause of the afflicted, The right-ruling of the poor.

Exodus 10:3

And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of the Hebrews, ‘Till when shall you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that יהוה is greater than all the mighty ones, indeed in the matter in which they acted proudly, above them.

Proverbs 21:4

A haughty look, a proud heart, The lamp of the wrong, are sin.

Isaiah 2:17

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And יהוה alone shall be exalted in that day,

Isaiah 37:23

“Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl!

Isaiah 5:15

And man is bowed down, and mortal man humbled, and the eyes of the proud are humbled.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress He was distressed, and the Messenger of His Presence saved them. In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar, am praising and exalting and esteeming the Sovereign of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His ways right. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.