Psalms 18:27
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.
28For thou wilt light my candle: 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, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God : God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, who is thy sword:
Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms 101:5Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will 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 →