Bible verse
You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
2 Samuel 22:28 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Samuel 22.
24 And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
25 So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
26 To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
27 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
28 You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
29 For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
30 For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.
31 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
32 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
KJV
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.
ASV
And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
ERV
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
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