Psalms 18:27
For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
28For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
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 →