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 he will not always overlook the plight of the poor, nor will the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard and delivered him from all of his distress.

But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think about me. You are my help and deliverer. My God, do not tarry too long! To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

You save the nation who is humble but your eyes watch the proud, to bring them down.

"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message.

He pulled powerful rulers from their thrones and lifted up humble people.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

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With haughty arrogance, the wicked thinks, "God will not seek justice." He always presumes "There is no God."

They are imprisoned by their own prosperity, they have boasted proudly with their mouth.

I will destroy the one who secretly slanders a friend. I will not allow the proud and haughty to prevail.

Here are six things that the LORD hates seven, in fact, are detestable to him:

Some people view themselves as pure, but haven't been cleansed from their own filth.

"The expressions on their faces give them away. They parade their sin around like Sodom; they don't even try to hide it. How horrible it will be for them, because they have brought disaster on themselves!"

"For the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem; he will punish the speech that comes from that willful heart of Assyria's king and the haughty look in his eyes.

I tell you, this man, rather than the other one, went down to his home justified, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."