Psalms 18:27

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

American King James Version (AKJV)

For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

American Standard Version (ASV)

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

Webster's Revision

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.

English Revised Version (ERV)

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

Definitions for Psalms 18:27

Save - Except; besides.

Clarke's Psalms 18:27 Bible Commentary

For thou wilt save the afflicted - The afflicted are the humble; and those thou hast ever befriended.

Barnes's Psalms 18:27 Bible Commentary

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 Psalm 101:5; Proverbs 6:17; Proverbs 21:4; Isaiah 2:11 (notes); Isaiah 10:12; Daniel 7:20.