Psalms 18:27
25 To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
26 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
28 For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
29 For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
- KJV
- For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
- WEB
- For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
- ASV
- For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
- DARBY
- For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
- BLB
- For You will save a lowly people, but the eyes of those rising high You bring low.
- ÅB
- For du redder de elendige,
og du fornedrer de hovmodige. - OTB
- For du frelser et ydmykt folk,
Men du feller de stoltes øyne. - B1930
- For du frelser elendige folk, og du fornedrer høie øine.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 66:2
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
Read in contextIsaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
Read in contextJames 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
Read in context2 Samuel 22:28
You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Read in contextPsalms 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:9
The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
Read in contextPsalms 9:18
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
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