Psalms 18:27
(18:28) For thou wilt indeed save the afflicted people; but haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26(18:27) With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt wage a contest.
28(18:29) For thou wilt cause my light to shine: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28And the afflicted people thou wilt save; but thy eyes are upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.
Psalms 10:4The wicked, according to the pride of his wrathfulness, [saith,] He will not require, There is no God [in] all his plans.
Psalms 17:13Arise, O Lord, prevent him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, who is thy sword,—
Psalms 34:19(34:20) Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord ever delivereth him.
Psalms 101:5Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbor, him will I destroy: whoso hath proud eyes and a haughty heart, him will I not suffer.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed [clean] of its 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 →