*Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,* says the LORD; *I will set him in safety from those who malign him.*
2 Samuel 22:28 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the afflicted people You will deliver, but Your eyes are upon the haughty, whom You will bring down. American Standard Version (1901) And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. Common English Bible You are the one who saves people who suffer, but your eyes are against the proud. You bring them down! Catholic Public Domain Version 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 And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty. |
*Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,* says the LORD; *I will set him in safety from those who malign him.*
For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
Moshe and Aharon went in to Par`oh, and said to him, *This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.*
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Yisra'el.
So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
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; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Now I, Nevukhadnetzar 1, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
*Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.*