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Text -- Psalms 18:27 (NET)
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JFB: Psa 18:25-27 - -- God renders to men according to their deeds in a penal, not vindictive, sense (Lev 26:23-24).
God renders to men according to their deeds in a penal, not vindictive, sense (Lev 26:23-24).
Clarke -> Psa 18:27
Clarke: Psa 18:27 - -- For thou wilt save the afflicted - The afflicted are the humble; and those thou hast ever befriended.
For thou wilt save the afflicted - The afflicted are the humble; and those thou hast ever befriended.
Calvin -> Psa 18:27
Calvin: Psa 18:27 - -- 27.For thou wilt save the afflicted people This verse contains the correction of a mistake into which we are very ready to fall. As experience shows ...
27.For thou wilt save the afflicted people This verse contains the correction of a mistake into which we are very ready to fall. As experience shows that the merciful are often severely afflicted, and the sincere involved in troubles of a very distressing description, to prevent any from regarding the statement as false that God deals mercifully with the merciful, David admonishes us that we must wait for the end; for although God does not immediately run to succor the good, yet, after having exercised their patience for a time, he lifts them up from the dust on which they lay prostrate, and brings effectual relief to them, even when they were in despair. Whence it follows, that we ought only to judge by the issue how God shows himself merciful towards the merciful and pure towards the pure. If he did not keep his people in suspense and waiting long for deliverance from affliction, it could not be said that it is his prerogative to save the afflicted. And it is no small consolation, in the midst of our adversities, to know that God purposely delays to communicate his assistance, which otherwise is quite prepared, that we may experience his goodness in saving us after we have been afflicted and brought low. 422 Nor ought we to reckon the wrongs which are inflicted upon us too bitter, since they excite God to show towards us his favor which bringeth salvation. As to the second clause of this verse, the reading is a little different in the song in the 2nd Book of Samuel, where the words are, Thine eyes are against the proud to cast them down. But this difference makes no alteration as to the meaning, except that the Holy Spirit there more plainly threatens the proud, that, as God is on the watch to overthrow them, it is impossible for them to escape destruction. The substance of both places is this: The more the ungodly indulge in gratifying their own inclinations, without any fear of danger, and the more proudly they despise the afflicted poor who are under their feet, they are so much the nearer to destruction. Whenever, therefore, they cruelly break forth against us with mockery and contempt, let us know that there is nothing which prevents God from repelling their headstrong pertinacity, but that their pride is not yet come to its height.
TSK -> Psa 18:27
TSK: Psa 18:27 - -- save : Psa 9:18, Psa 34:6, Psa 34:19, Psa 40:17; 2Sa 22:28; Isa 57:15, Isa 66:2; Luk 1:52, Luk 1:53; 2Co 8:9; Jam 2:5
bring : Psa 10:4, Psa 17:10, Psa...
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Barnes -> Psa 18:27
Barnes: Psa 18:27 - -- For thou wilt save the afflicted people - From the particular tokens of divine favor toward himself in affliction and trouble, the psalmist now...
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 Psa 101:5; Pro 6:17; Pro 21:4; Isa 2:11 (notes); Isa 10:12; Dan 7:20.
Poole -> Psa 18:27
Poole: Psa 18:27 - -- The afflicted people such as I and my poor followers were.
High looks i.e. proud persons, who discover the pride of their hearts by their haughty l...
Gill -> Psa 18:27
Gill: Psa 18:27 - -- For thou wilt save the afflicted people,.... As the people of God commonly are; they are afflicted with sin, and the corruption of their own hearts, a...
For thou wilt save the afflicted people,.... As the people of God commonly are; they are afflicted with sin, and the corruption of their own hearts, and with Satan and his temptations, and with the world, its reproaches, and persecutions; but God in his own time saves them out of them, if not here, yet hereafter. This is particularly and eminently true of the Christians who lived between the crucifixion of Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem; who were greatly afflicted and persecuted by the Jews, but were in a remarkable manner saved a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, by being directed to go out of it to a place called Pella c; so that not one Christian suffered in it;
but wilt bring down high looks; or proud men, whom God humbles; these he abhors, resists, sets himself against, scatters and destroys. The Jews were a very proud people, and behaved in an insolent and insulting manner towards Christ and his followers; but the high looks of the chief priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, were brought down to a purpose, when their city, temple, and nation, were destroyed; see Isa 2:11.
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NET Notes: Psa 18:27 Heb “but proud eyes you bring low.” 2 Sam 22:28 reads, “your eyes [are] upon the proud, [whom] you bring low.”
Geneva Bible -> Psa 18:27
Geneva Bible: Psa 18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt ( u ) bring down high looks.
( u ) When their sin is come to the full measure.
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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 18:1-50
MHCC -> Psa 18:20-28
MHCC: Psa 18:20-28 - --Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God. But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not be a wicked depa...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 18:20-28
Matthew Henry: Psa 18:20-28 - -- Here, I. David reflects with comfort upon his own integrity, and rejoices in the testimony of his conscience that he had had his conversation in god...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 18:24-27
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 18:24-27 - --
(Heb.: 18:25-28) What was said in Psa 18:21 is again expressed here as a result of the foregoing, and substantiated in Psa 18:26, Psa 18:27. חס...
Constable -> Psa 18:1-50; Psa 18:3-28
Constable: Psa 18:1-50 - --Psalm 18
As the title indicates, David wrote this psalm after he had subdued his political enemies and h...
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