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Psalms 18:27
27With the pure You are pure, and with the crooked You are shrewd.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For You will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty looks.
Context of Psalms 18:27
25So Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness, for the cleanness of my hands in His eyes. 26With the loyal You deal loyally. With the blameless You are blameless. With the pure You are pure, and with the crooked You are shrewd. 28For You save lowly people, but haughty eyes You humble. 29For You light up my lamp. Adonai my God shines in my darkness.
Read all of Psalms 18Psalms 18:27 word by word
כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה עַם־עָנִ֣י תוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינַ֖יִם רָמ֣וֹת תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 18:27
- Psalms 9:18The wicked will turn to Sheol, as will all the nations that forget God.
- Psalms 34:6They who looked to Him were radiant, and their faces will never be ashamed.
- Psalms 40:17Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let those who love Your salvation continually say: “Adonai be magnified!”
- 2 Samuel 22:28You save lowly people. But Your eyes are on the haughty— You will humble them.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the High and Exalted One who inhabits eternity, whose Name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isaiah 66:2For My hand has made all these things, so all these things came to be,” declares Adonai. “But on this one will I look, one humble and of a contrite spirit, who trembles at My word.”
- Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from thrones and exalted humble ones.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah—that even though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.
- James 2:5Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom that He promised to those who love Him?
- Psalms 10:4The wicked one, with his nose in the air, never seeks Him. All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”
- Psalms 17:10Their callous heart they shut tight. With their mouth they speak proudly.
- Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret —him I will silence. Who has haughty eyes and a proud heart —him I will not tolerate.
- Proverbs 6:16Six things Adonai hates, yes, seven are abominations to Him:
- Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not cleansed from its filth.
- Isaiah 3:9The expression of their faces bears witness against them. They display their sin like Sodom— they do not hide it. Oy , their souls! For they brought evil on themselves.
- Isaiah 10:12Therefore it will come to pass, when Adonai finishes all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glorying of his haughty 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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