Psalms 18:27
For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.
28For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.
Psalms 10:4The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword,
Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.
Psalms 101:5He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 18:21-29
Devout Thanksgivings; Devout Confidence 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in… Read the whole commentary →