Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For You save an afflicted people,
But haughty eyes You abase.

King James Version

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

Holman Bible

For You rescue an afflicted people,
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.

References

Context Readings

Praise For Deliverance

26 With pure people you are pure. In dealing with devious people you are clever. 27 For You save an afflicted people,
But haughty eyes You abase.
28 O Jehovah, you light my lamp. My God turns my darkness into light.


Cross References

Psalm 101:5

I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart.

2 Samuel 22:28

You rescue the humble. You find ways to humiliate the proud.

Psalm 9:18

Needy people will not always be forgotten. Nor will the hope of meek people be lost forever.

Psalm 10:4

In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: There is no God.

Psalm 17:10

They have no feeling. Their mouths have spoken arrogantly.

Psalm 17:13

Arise, O Jehovah and confront them! Bring them to their knees! With your sword rescue my life from the wicked.

Psalm 34:6

The poor man called out. Jehovah heard him and saved him from all his troubles.

Psalm 34:19

The righteous person has many troubles, but Jehovah rescues him from all of them.

Psalm 40:17

I am oppressed and needy. May Jehovah think of me. You are my help and my salvation. O my God, do not delay!

Proverbs 6:16-17

Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him:

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness.

Isaiah 3:9

The expression on their faces will be held against them. They boast about their sins! They are like those of the people of Sodom. They do not even bother to hide them. How horrible it will be for these people. They have brought disaster on themselves.

Isaiah 10:12

It will happen when Jehovah has performed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will say: I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty appearance.

Isaiah 57:15

The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: 'I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.'

Isaiah 66:2

I have made all these things. That is why all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah. I will pay attention to those who are humble and sorry for their sins and who tremble at my word.

Luke 1:52-53

He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble.

Luke 18:14

I tell you the tax collector and not the Pharisee was right with God when he went home. He who exalts himself will be humbled! He who humbles himself will be exalted!

2 Corinthians 8:9

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

James 2:5

Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

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