2 Samuel 22:28
◄  2 Samuel 22:28  ►
New International Version (©2011)
You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You rescue the humble, but your eyes watch the proud and humiliate them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And You save an afflicted people; But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You abase.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You rescue an afflicted people, but Your eyes are set against the proud-- You humble them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You save the nation who is humble but your eyes watch the proud, to bring them down.

NET Bible (©2006)
You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You save humble people, but your eyes bring down arrogant people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down.

American King James Version
And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are on the haughty, 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.

Darby Bible Translation
And the afflicted people thou dost save; And thine eyes are upon the haughty, whom thou bringest down.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy 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 haughty, that you may bring them down.

Young's Literal Translation
And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-51 David's psalm of thanksgiving. - This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as Ps 18. They that trust God in the way of duty, shall find him a present help in their greatest dangers: David did so. Remarkable preservations should be particularly mentioned in our praises. We shall never be delivered from all enemies till we get to heaven. God will preserve all his people, 2Ti 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. See Gill on Psalm 18:27.

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David's Song of Deliverance
…27With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself unsavory. 28And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down. 29For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. …

Luke 14:11 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."
Exodus 3:7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Psalm 72:12 For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.
Psalm 72:13 He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death.
Psalm 131:1 A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.
Isaiah 2:11 The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:12 The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
Isaiah 5:15 So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled.