Parallel Verses
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.
A Conservative Version
For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
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 purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
27
But
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
2 Samuel 22:28
You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Psalm 9:18
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
Psalm 10:4
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
Psalm 17:10
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Psalm 17:13
Arise, O LORD! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
Psalm 34:6
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 40:17
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
Proverbs 6:16-17
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 30:12
There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.
Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Isaiah 10:12
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 66:2
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Luke 1:52-53
he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?