For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people - those whom he had before called 'merciful (benignant), upright, and pure,' he now calls "the afflicted people," for the ordinary characteristic of the godly in this life is to be afflicted (2 Timothy 3:12). They are described as a "people" - i:e., a class by themselves, as contra-distinguished from unbelievers. As the godly are an afflicted people, so the ungodly are men of high looks.