Psalm 18:27

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Psalm 18:27

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

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For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.

And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

He brought down potentates from thrones, and raised up lowly men.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

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The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.

He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him:

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

The show of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

Therefore it shall come to pass, that, when LORD has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.