2 Samuel 22:28

Modern English Version

You deliver a humble people; but Your eyes are upon the exalted to bring them down.

Cross References

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy sigh, now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”

Psalm 131:1

Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I involve myself in great matters, nor in things too profound for me.

Psalm 138:6

Though the Lord is exalted, yet has He regard for the lowly, but the proud He knows from afar.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor.

Exodus 10:3

Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, for in the matter in which they treated the people insolently, He was above them.”

Proverbs 21:4

A haughty eye and a proud heart, and the lamp of the wicked are sin.

Isaiah 2:17

The loftiness of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day;

Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes haughtily? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 5:15

The common man shall be brought down, and the great man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them; in His love and in His mercy He redeemed them; and He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and those who walk in pride He is able to abase.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 14:11

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”