Psalms 9:18

King James Version

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For the needy will not always be forgotten,Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the poore shall not alway be forgotten: [neither] shall the hope of the humble afflicted, perishe for euer.

Darby Translation
For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

New King James Version
For the needy shall not always be forgotten; The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

Literal Translation
For the needy shall not forever be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

Easy-to-Read Version
It may seem that those who are poor and needy have been forgotten, but God will not forget them. He will not leave them without hope.

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

King James Version (1611)
For the needie shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poore shall not perish for euer.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the poore shal not allwaye be out of remembraunce, the paciet abydinge of soch as be in trouble shall not perish for euer.

American Standard Version
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

Bible in Basic English
For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.

Update Bible Version
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.

New English Translation
for the needy are not permanently ignored, the hopes of the oppressed are not forever dashed.

Contemporary English Version
The poor and the homeless won't always be forgotten and without hope.

Complete Jewish Bible
The wicked will return to Sh'ol, all the nations that forget God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the poore shall not bee alway forgotten: the hope of the afflicted shall not perish for euer.

George Lamsa Translation
For the poor shall not always be forgotten; and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

Amplified Bible
For the poor will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the burdened perish forever.

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The wicked shall return to the nether-world, even all the nations that forget God.

New Living Translation
But the needy will not be ignored forever; the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed.

New Life Bible
But those in need will not always be forgotten. The hope of the poor will not be lost forever.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

English Revised Version
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

Berean Standard Bible
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, not always, shall the needy, be forgotten, - nor, the hope of the oppressed, perish for ever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-19) For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Lexham English Bible
for the needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish.

English Standard Version
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

New American Standard Bible
For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

New Century Version
But those who have troubles will not be forgotten. The hopes of the poor will never die.

Good News Translation
The needy will not always be neglected; the hope of the poor will not be crushed forever.

Christian Standard Bible®
For the oppressed will not always be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the foryetyng of a pore man schal not be in to the ende; the pacience of pore men schal not perische in to the ende.

Young's Literal Translation
For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

Revised Standard Version
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord , which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. ¹² When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. ¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: ¹⁴ That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. ¹⁵ The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. ¹⁶ The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. ¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. ¹⁹ Arise, O Lord ; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. ²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord : that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For the: Psalms 9:12, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 72:4, Psalms 72:12-14, Psalms 102:17, Psalms 102:20, Psalms 109:31, Luke 1:53, Luke 6:20, James 2:5

expectation: Proverbs 23:18, Proverbs 24:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:9 - hold him Job 5:16 - the poor Psalms 10:17 - Lord Psalms 18:27 - save Psalms 74:21 - O let not Isaiah 29:19 - the poor

Cross-References

Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Genesis 9:25
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Genesis 9:27
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the needy shall not always be forgotten,.... The people of God are poor and needy for the most part; they are so in things temporal, and they are poor in spirit, or in things spiritual, of which they are sensible; their needs are many, and frequently return; but God has provided a throne of grace for them to come to for help in time of need, and he will supply all their wants out of the fulness of grace in Christ; nor is he unmindful of them, and of his covenant with them; strictly speaking, they are never forgotten by him, being engraven on his hands, and set as a seal on his heart; but they sometimes seem to be so both to themselves and others, Psalms 42:3; and they may continue so long; God may seem for a long time to take no notice of them, but suffer them to lie under affliction and persecution; the holy city is trodden under foot forty two months, or one thousand two hundred and sixty days, that is, so many years; so long the witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, so long the church is in the wilderness, and so long will be the reign of antichrist,

Revelation 11:2; but as great Babylon will come up in remembrance before God, and he will remember her sins, and render her double; the set time to favour his poor and needy will come, and he will arise and have mercy on them, and bring them into a glorious and comfortable state and condition;

the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever; the negative particle, though not in the original text, is rightly supplied from the preceding clause, as it is by the Targum, Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi, and as the sense requires; and the expectation of Christ's poor ones is not only a supply of grace here and eternal happiness hereafter; but they expect a glorious state of the church on earth, and that Christ will descend in person from heaven, and his tabernacle will be among men; and that they shall be kings and priests, and possess the kingdom, and reign with Christ a thousand years; and though these things may seem to be deferred, and their expectation put off to a length of time, yet it shall not perish for ever; there will be a performance of the things promised and expected.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the needy - The poor; those who are dependent and helpless.

Shall not always be forgotten - That is, by God. He will interfere and save them by destroying their enemies. He will not suffer the wicked always to persecute and oppress the righteous. In due time he will vindicate his own cause; will deliver the oppressed and down-trodden, and will consign their oppressors to deserved punishment. This is as true now, in regard to all the oppressed and their oppressors, as it was in the time of the psalmist.

The expectation of the poor - Of the afflicted and the oppressed. The word “expectation” refers to their hope; their desire; their earnest looking for deliverance. In that state men naturally look for the divine interposition, and the psalmist says that in that they will not always be disappointed.

Shall not perish for ever - The word “not” is supplied here by our translators, but not improperly. It is thus supplied in the Targum, and in the Syriac, the Vulgate and the Greek. Such forms of construction are not uncommon. Compare Psalms 1:5; Deuteronomy 33:6. “The negative is repeated from the preceding member.” - Michaelis.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 9:18. The needy shall not alway be forgotten — The needy, and the poor, whose expectation is from the Lord, are never forgotten, though sometimes their deliverance is delayed for the greater confusion of their enemies, the greater manifestation of God's mercy, and the greater benefit to themselves.