Psalms 18:27
For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
28For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28And the afflicted people thou dost save; And thine eyes are upon the haughty, [whom] thou bringest down.
Psalms 10:4The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!
Psalms 17:13Arise, Jehovah, anticipate him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, thy sword;
Psalms 34:19Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:
Psalms 101:5Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
Proverbs 30:12there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, 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 →