Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.

New American Standard Bible

Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

King James Version

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Holman Bible

Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame;
let the poor and needy praise Your name.

International Standard Version

Don't let the oppressed return in humiliation. The poor and needy will praise your name.

American Standard Version

Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Amplified


Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Bible in Basic English

O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

Darby Translation

Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

Julia Smith Translation

The poor one shall not turn back ashamed: the humble and the needy shall praise thy name.

King James 2000

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not let [the] oppressed turn back humiliated; let [the] poor and needy praise your name.

Modern King James verseion

Oh let not the ill-treated ones return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise Your name.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O let not the simple go away ashamed; for the poor and needy give praises unto thy name.

NET Bible

Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name!

New Heart English Bible

Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

The Emphasized Bible

May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name.

Webster

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

World English Bible

Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Youngs Literal Translation

Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Israel

20 Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. 21 O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name. 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches thee all the day.

Cross References

Ezra 3:11

And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to LORD, [saying], For he is good, for his loving kindness [is] forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised LORD, because the fo

Psalm 9:18

For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

Psalm 35:10

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?

Psalm 102:19-21

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven LORD beheld the earth,

Psalm 103:6

LORD executes righteous acts, and judgments for all who are oppressed.

Psalm 109:22

for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Isaiah 45:17

[But] Israel shall be saved by LORD with an everlasting salvation. Ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.

Jeremiah 33:11

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to LORD of hosts, for LORD is good, for his loving kindness [is] forever, [and of those] wh

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