TOPICAL BIBLE
Poor
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Job 31:18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother’s womb);Job 31:19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;Job 31:20if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,Job 31:22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Job 31:38If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;Job 31:39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,Job 31:40let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.Job 34:18Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?Job 34:19Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.Job 34:28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.Job 36:6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.Job 36:15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.Psalm 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.Psalm 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.Psalm 10:8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.Psalm 10:9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.Psalm 10:10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.Psalm 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.Psalm 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”Psalm 14:6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.Psalm 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.Psalm 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”Psalm 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.Psalm 37:16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.Psalm 37:21The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.Psalm 37:26All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.Psalm 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.Psalm 41:2Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.Psalm 41:3Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.Psalm 68:10Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.Psalm 69:33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.Psalm 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.Psalm 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.Psalm 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.Psalm 72:13He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.Psalm 72:14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.Psalm 74:21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.Psalm 82:3“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.Psalm 82:4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”Psalm 102:17He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.Psalm 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.Psalm 107:36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,Psalm 107:41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.Psalm 109:16because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.Psalm 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.Psalm 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.Psalm 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.Psalm 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.Psalm 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;Psalm 113:8that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.Psalm 132:15I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.Psalm 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.Psalm 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:Psalm 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.Proverbs 10:15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.Proverbs 13:7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.Proverbs 13:8The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.Proverbs 13:23An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.Proverbs 14:20The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.