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 not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

And I am poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer art Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.

He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

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The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.

Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'