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Psalm 9:18 (WEB)
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Fathers and councils · 7

Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 9
““For there shall not be forgetfulness of the poor man to the end” (ver. 18); who now seems to be in forgetfulness, when sinners are thought to flourish in this world’s happiness, and the righteous to be in travail: but “the patience,” saith He, “of the poor shall not perish for ever.”” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, On Patience Chapter 12
“It is not therefore that “patience of the poor” which “perisheth not forever.”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 18
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Augustine of Hippo, On Patience Chapter 26
“…in desire, not yet reigning in felicity; as yet hungering and thirsting, not yet satisfied: of these poor, then, “the patience shall not perish for ever:” not that there will be patience there also, where aught to endure shall not be; but “will not perish,” meaning that it will not be unfruitful.” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 18
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.9Book XIV
“Or if no kind of fear at all shall exist in that most imperturbable security of perpetual and blissful delights, then the expression, “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever,” must be taken in the same sense as that other, “The patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 22
“Let them be instructed by the misfortunes of others, and learn that the poor shall not alway be forgotten, and that the Deity will not refrain, as Habakkuk says, from striking through the heads of the mighty ones in His fury—the Deity, Who has been struck through…” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 18.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.14Book IV
“Again: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, even all the nations that forget God; because the needy shall not alway be forgotten; the endurance of the poor shall not perish for ever.”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 17, 18.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.39Book IV
“Of this very patience the Psalm says, “The patient endurance of the just shall not perish for ever;” because it is said in another Psalm, “Precious (in the sight of the Lord) is the death of the just”—arising, no doubt, out of their patient endurance, so that Zechariah declares: “A crown shall be to them that endure.”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 18.
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