2 Samuel 22:28

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Psalm 12:5

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

Psalm 131:1

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went in 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, because he delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them.”

Proverbs 21:4

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Isaiah 2:17

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

Isaiah 37:23

“ ‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 5:15

Man is bowed down, and men are brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are 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 pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up 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 right and his ways are 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 every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”