²⁷ For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.

⁵ I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

⁵ 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?

⁹ 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.

¹⁴ 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."

⁵² He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

⁵³ He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

² For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 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.

¹² Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

⁹ 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.

¹² There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, Yet are not washed from their filthiness.

¹⁶ There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

⁶ This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

¹³ Arise, Yahweh, Confront him, cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

¹⁰ They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

⁴ The wicked, in the pride of his face, Has no room in his thoughts for God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

²⁸ The afflicted people you will save; But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.