Psalms 18:27

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

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

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

“You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds.

They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?