Psalms 18:27
(18-28) For Thou dost save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes Thou dost humble.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
28(18-29) For Thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God doth lighten my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28And the afflicted people Thou dost save; but Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that Thou mayest humble them.
Psalms 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; 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 34:19(34-20) Many are the ills of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms 101:5Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that 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 →