Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Indeed, you deliver the oppressed, but you bring down those who exalt themselves in their own eyes.
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.
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 to the pure, you show yourself pure, and to the morally corrupt, you appear to be perverse. 27 Indeed, you deliver the oppressed, but you bring down those who exalt themselves in their own eyes. 28 For you, LORD, make my lamp shine; my God enlightens my darkness.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 101:5
I will destroy the one who secretly slanders a friend. I will not allow the proud and haughty to prevail.
2 Samuel 22:28
You save the nation who is humble but your eyes watch the proud, to bring them down.
Psalm 9:18
For he will not always overlook the plight of the poor, nor will the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
Psalm 10:4
With haughty arrogance, the wicked thinks, "God will not seek justice." He always presumes "There is no God."
Psalm 17:10
They are imprisoned by their own prosperity, they have boasted proudly with their mouth.
Psalm 17:13
Arise, LORD, confront them, bring them to their knees! Deliver me from the wicked by your sword
Psalm 34:6
This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard and delivered him from all of his distress.
Psalm 34:19
A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all.
Psalm 40:17
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.
Proverbs 6:16-17
Here are six things that the LORD hates seven, in fact, are detestable to him:
Proverbs 30:12
Some people view themselves as pure, but haven't been cleansed from their own filth.
Isaiah 3:9
"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!"
Isaiah 10:12
"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.
Isaiah 57:15
"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.
Isaiah 66:2
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.
Luke 1:52-53
He pulled powerful rulers from their thrones and lifted up humble people.
Luke 18:14
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."
2 Corinthians 8:9
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.
James 2:5
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?