2 Samuel 22:28 “You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to brin…”

2 Samuel 22:28

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

World English Bible

You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

American Standard Version

And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them.

Darby Translation

And the afflicted people thou dost save; And thine eyes are upon the haughty, [whom] thou bringest down.

Young's Literal Translation

And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

Bible in Basic English

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

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Cross references

“afflicted”

Psalm 12:5 Psalm 140:12 Isaiah 61:1–3 Isaiah 63:9 Matthew 5:3 Exodus 3:7

Psalm 12:5 · BSB

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

Psalm 140:12 · BSB

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

Isaiah 61:1–3 · BSB

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Isaiah 63:9 · BSB

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Matthew 5:3 · BSB

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Exodus 3:7 · BSB

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

“but thine”

Isaiah 5:15 Exodus 9:14–17 Exodus 10:3 Exodus 18:11 Psalm 138:6 Proverbs 21:4

Isaiah 5:15 · BSB

So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

Exodus 9:14–17 · BSB

Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

Exodus 10:3 · BSB

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 18:11 · BSB

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

Psalm 138:6 · BSB

Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

Proverbs 21:4 · BSB

Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.

Also

Isaiah 2:17

Isaiah 2:17 · BSB

So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

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