New Revised Standard Version
For the Lord will not reject forever.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord won't always reject us!

New American Bible
For the Lord does not reject forever;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

1 Samuel 12:22 And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.

Psalm 77:7 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again?

Psalm 94:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

Psalm 103:8-10 The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy. . . .

Isaiah 54:7-10 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. . . .

Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

Jeremiah 31:37 Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

Jeremiah 33:24 Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

Romans 11:1-6 I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. . . .