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Psalm 18:27
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
28For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
29For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
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“Arrogant eyes” face God's judgment in the same sentence that promises rescue to afflicted people, making human power look less secure.
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Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”Both passages speak of the proud being brought down; Jesus also says that those who humble themselves will be exalted.
2 Corinthians 10:5throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of …Both use the language of bringing down what is exalted, though Paul addresses thoughts opposing the knowledge of God.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.Both describe proud looks brought low; Isaiah adds that the LORD alone will be exalted.
Isaiah 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says the LORD: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a …God attends to afflicted people in the psalm and to the poor and contrite person who trembles at his word in Isaiah.
James 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who …Both describe God's care for people in need: rescue for the afflicted and the promised Kingdom for the poor who love him.
Isaiah 57:15For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble …Both describe God's help for those brought low: he saves the afflicted and revives the humble and contrite.
2 Samuel 22:28You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.Both promise rescue for the afflicted and the downfall of the arrogant; Samuel describes God's eyes watching the arrogant.
Psalm 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.Arrogance meets opposition in both texts: God brings arrogant eyes down, and the speaker in Psalm 101 refuses to tolerate conceit.
Proverbs 6:17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,The phrase “arrogant eyes” appears in both texts; the psalm declares that God will bring them down.
Isaiah 3:9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon …Both mention people's looks in connection with judgment, though Isaiah speaks of open sin and the psalm of arrogance.
2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.The shared thread is divine help for people in need; Paul speaks of Christ's poverty, while the psalm speaks of rescue.
Psalm 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.Both express hope for people in distress: the afflicted will be saved, and the hope of the poor will endure.
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God's promise here gives no timetable for rescue. Yet the outcome belongs to him: he will save the afflicted and bring arrogant eyes down.
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