Psalms 18:27
For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
In Context
26With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
28For Thou — Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.
Psalms 10:4The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.
Psalms 17:13Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,
Psalms 34:19Many [are] the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.
Psalms 101:5Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.
Proverbs 30:12A generation — pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
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 →