For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.
2 Samuel 22:28 - King James 2000 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon 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. |
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.
[A song of ascents. Of David.] LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knows from afar.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, 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: for in the thing in which they dealt proudly he was above them.
A haughty look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
And man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be 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 Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.