Job 29:12
Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
Psalm 72:12
For he will rescue the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted and abused also, and him who has no helper.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor
Will cry out himself and not be answered.
Exodus 22:22-24
You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
Deuteronomy 10:18
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Nehemiah 5:2-13
For there were some who were saying, “We, along with our sons and our daughters, are many; therefore allow us to get grain, so that we may eat and survive.”
Job 22:5-9
“Is not your wickedness great,
And your sins without end?
Job 24:4
“They crowd the needy off the road;
The poor of the land all hide themselves.
Job 31:17
Or have eaten my morsel [of food] alone,
And did not share it with the orphan
Job 31:21
If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Psalm 82:2-4
How long will you judge unjustly
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Rescue those who are being taken away to death,
And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!
Jeremiah 22:16
“He defended the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then all was well.
Is that not what it means to know Me?”
Says the Lord.
James 1:27
Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.
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“Is not your wickedness great,
And your sins without end?
For he will rescue the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted and abused also, and him who has no helper.
How long will you judge unjustly
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor
Will cry out himself and not be answered.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death,
And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!
“He defended the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then all was well.
Is that not what it means to know Me?”
Says the Lord.
General references
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And administer justice for the afflicted and needy.