Job 31:16
“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],
Deuteronomy 15:7-10
“If there is a poor man among you, one of your fellow Israelites, in
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
Job 5:16
“So the helpless have hope,
And injustice shuts its mouth.
Job 20:19
“For he has oppressed and neglected the poor;
He has violently taken away houses which he did not build.
Job 22:7-9
“You have not given water to the weary to drink,
And you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.
Psalm 112:9
He has given freely to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted in honor.
Psalm 119:82
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your salvation,
And for [the fulfillment of] Your righteous word.
Isaiah 38:14
“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;
I coo like a dove.
My eyes look wistfully upward;
O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.
Lamentations 4:17
[And as for us,] yet our eyes failed,
Looking in vain for help.
Watching [from the towers] we watched
For a nation that could not save.
Luke 16:21
Acts 11:29
So the disciples decided to send a contribution, each according to his individual ability, to the believers who lived in Judea.
Galatians 2:10
They asked only [one thing], that we remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do.
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“You have not given water to the weary to drink,
And you have withheld bread from the hungry.
He has given freely to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted in honor.