Psalm 18:27 {17:28}
Good News Translation
You save those who are humble, but you humble those who are proud.

New Revised Standard Version
For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

Contemporary English Version
You rescue the humble, but you put down all who are proud.

New American Bible
For humble people you save; haughty eyes you bring low.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

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Psalm 9:18 For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Psalm 34:6,19 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles. . . .

Psalm 40:17 But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

2 Samuel 22:28 And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt humble the haughty.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Luke 1:52,53 He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

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Psalm 10:4 The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:

Psalm 17:10,13 They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly. . . .

Psalm 101:5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

Proverbs 6:16,17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, . . .

Proverbs 30:12 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Isaiah 10:12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.

Luke 18:14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
26And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted. 27For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.28For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.…
Cross References
Psalm 72:12
For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

Psalm 101:5
The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

Psalm 140:12
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

Proverbs 6:17
A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

Isaiah 2:11
The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Psalm 18:26
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