English Standard Version
Psalms 18:27
27For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
Psalms 18:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
- New International Version (NIV)You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For You will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty looks.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You rescue the humble, but you humiliate the proud.
Context of Psalms 18:27
25With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; 26with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous. For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. 28For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness. 29For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
Read all of Psalms 18Psalms 18:27 word by word
כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה עַם־עָנִ֣י תוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינַ֖יִם רָמ֣וֹת תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 18:27
- Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 40:17As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
- 2 Samuel 22:28You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isaiah 66:2All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
- Luke 1:52he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
- James 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
- Psalms 10:4In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
- Psalms 17:10They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
- Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
- Proverbs 6:16There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
- Proverbs 30:12There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.
- Isaiah 3:9For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
- Isaiah 10:12When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
Commentaries on Psalms 18:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27For thou wilt save the afflicted - The afflicted are the humble; and those thou hast ever befriended.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27For thou wilt save the afflicted people - From the particular tokens of divine favor toward himself in affliction and trouble, the psalmist now draws the general inference that this was the character of God, and that others in affliction might hope for his interposition as he had done. But wilt bring down high looks - Another general inference probably derived from the dealings of God with the proud and haughty foes of the psalmist. As God had humbled…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-28Verses 20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God. But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon the rule of God's commands. Constant care to keep from that sin, whatever it be, which most easily besets us, proves that we are upright before God. Those who show mercy to others, even they need mercy. Those who are faithful to God, shall find him all…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27haughty: The Lord hates pride (Psalm 101:5; 131:1; see Proverbs 6:16–17; 21:4; 30:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 25-2725-27. God renders to men according to their deeds in a penal, not vindictive, sense (Le 26:23, 24). merciful--or, "kind" (Psa 4:3).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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