TOPICAL BIBLE
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Job 31:18though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—Job 31:19if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,Job 31:20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,Job 31:22then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.Job 31:38if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,Job 31:39if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.Job 34:18who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.Job 36:6He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.Job 36:15God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.Psalm 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.Psalm 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.Psalm 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.Psalm 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.Psalm 10:10They are crushed and beaten down; the helpless fall prey to his strength.Psalm 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.Psalm 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”Psalm 14:6You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.Psalm 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.Psalm 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”Psalm 37:14The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.Psalm 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.Psalm 37:21The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.Psalm 37:26They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.Psalm 41:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.Psalm 41:2The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to give him over to the will of his foes.Psalm 41:3The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.Psalm 68:10Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.Psalm 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.Psalm 72:2May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.Psalm 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.Psalm 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.Psalm 72:13He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.Psalm 72:14He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.Psalm 74:21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.Psalm 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.Psalm 82:4Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.Psalm 102:17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.Psalm 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.Psalm 107:36He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.Psalm 107:41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.Psalm 109:16For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.Psalm 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.Psalm 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.Psalm 112:5It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.Psalm 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.Psalm 113:7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dumpPsalm 113:8to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.Psalm 132:15I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.Psalm 140:12I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.Psalm 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,Psalm 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,Proverbs 10:15The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.Proverbs 13:7One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.Proverbs 13:8Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.Proverbs 13:23Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.Proverbs 14:20The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.