Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Holman Bible
but You humble those with haughty eyes.
International Standard Version
Indeed, you deliver the oppressed, but you bring down those who exalt themselves in their own eyes.
American Standard Version
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
Amplified
For You save an afflicted and humble people,
But bring down those [arrogant fools] with haughty eyes.
Bible in Basic English
For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.
Darby Translation
For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt save the humble people, and thou wilt humble the eyes of the lifted up.
King James 2000
For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate.
Modern King James verseion
For You will save the afflicted people, but will bring down high looks.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. {TYNDALE: And the people that are in adversity, thou shalt help. And on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes.}
NET Bible
For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.
New Heart English Bible
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
The Emphasized Bible
For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low;
Webster
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
World English Bible
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
26 With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary. 27 For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down. 28 For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 101:5
He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
2 Samuel 22:28
And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.
Psalm 9:18
For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.
Psalm 10:4
The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalm 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalm 17:13
Arise, O LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword,
Psalm 34:6
This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 40:17
But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.
Proverbs 6:16-17
There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
Isaiah 3:9
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.
Isaiah 10:12
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.
Isaiah 57:15
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
Isaiah 66:2
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.
Luke 1:52-53
He brought down potentates from thrones, and raised up lowly men.
Luke 18:14
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.
2 Corinthians 8:9
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.
James 2:5
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?