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Selected Verse: Psalms 18:27 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 18:27 |
Strong Concordance |
For thou wilt save [03467] the afflicted [06041] people [05971]; but wilt bring down [08213] high [07311] looks [05869]. |
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King James |
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
the afflicted people--that is, the humbly pious.
high looks--pride (Psa 101:5; Psa 131:1). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For thou wilt save the afflicted people - From the particular tokens of divine favor toward himself in affliction and trouble, the psalmist now draws the general inference that this was the character of God, and that others in affliction might hope for his interposition as he had done.
But wilt bring down high looks - Another general inference probably derived from the dealings of God with the proud and haughty foes of the psalmist. As God had humbled them, so he infers that he would deal with others in the same way. "High looks" are indicative of pride and haughtiness. Compare Psa 101:5; Pro 6:17; Pro 21:4; Isa 2:11 (notes); Isa 10:12; Dan 7:20. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For thou wilt save the afflicted - The afflicted are the humble; and those thou hast ever befriended. |
1 A Song [07892] of degrees [04609] of David [01732]. LORD [03068], my heart [03820] is not haughty [01361], nor mine eyes [05869] lofty [07311]: neither do I exercise [01980] myself in great matters [01419], or in things too high [06381] for me.
5 Whoso privily [05643] slandereth [03960] [03960] his neighbour [07453], him will I cut off [06789]: him that hath an high [01362] look [05869] and a proud [07342] heart [03824] will not I suffer [03201].
20 And of [05922] the ten [06236] horns [07162] that were in his head [07217], and of the other [0317] which came up [05559], and before [04481] [06925] whom three [08532] fell [05308]; even of that horn [07162] that [01797] had eyes [05870], and a mouth [06433] that spake [04449] very great things [07260], whose look [02376] was more [04481] stout [07229] than [04481] his fellows [02273].
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord [0136] hath performed [01214] his whole work [04639] upon mount [02022] Zion [06726] and on Jerusalem [03389], I will punish [06485] the fruit [06529] of the stout [01433] heart [03824] of the king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and the glory [08597] of his high [07312] looks [05869].
11 The lofty [01365] looks [05869] of man [0120] shall be humbled [08213], and the haughtiness [07312] of men [0582] shall be bowed down [07817], and the LORD [03068] alone shall be exalted [07682] in that day [03117].
4 An high [07312] look [05869], and a proud [07342] heart [03820], and the plowing [05215] of the wicked [07563], is sin [02403].
17 A proud [07311] look [05869], a lying [08267] tongue [03956], and hands [03027] that shed [08210] innocent [05355] blood [01818],
5 Whoso privily [05643] slandereth [03960] [03960] his neighbour [07453], him will I cut off [06789]: him that hath an high [01362] look [05869] and a proud [07342] heart [03824] will not I suffer [03201].