2 Samuel 22:28

WEB

²⁸You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

KJV

²⁸And the afflicted^[+] people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

BSB

²⁸You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

FBV

²⁸You save the humble, but your eyes watch the proud to bring them down.

Extra References

Psalms 72:12-13

¹²For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. ¹³He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

Isaiah 5:15

¹⁵So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

⁷The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. ⁸I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Isaiah 2:17

¹⁷The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:11-12

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. ¹²For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low—

James 4:6-7

⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”⁷Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Matthew 5:3

³“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

1 Peter 5:5-6

⁵Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”⁶Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Isaiah 37:28-29

²⁸But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. ²⁹Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Proverbs 21:4

⁴A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.