'Poor and Needy' in the Bible
Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill such as are upright in the way.
But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.
But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O God. Thou are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Delay thou not.
He will have pity on a poor and needy man, and he will save the souls of the needy.
O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.
Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver from the hand of the wicked man.
Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to kill.
for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst. I, LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.
has wronged the poor and needy man, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.