Psalms 18:27
For the lowly people you save, but haughty eyes you abase.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26With the pure you show yourself pure, but shrewd with the devious.
28You are my lamp, Lord, my God who enlightens my darkness.
Cross References
Psalms 10:4in wicked pride, thinks: God doesn’t care, God doesn’t call to account.
Psalms 17:13Arise, Lord, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked,
Psalms 34:19Many misfortunes befall the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.
Psalms 101:5Who slanders their neighbor in secret, I bring them to silence: haughty looks and proud hearts I will not abide.
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 →