'Poor and Needy' in the Bible

Since poor people won't cease to exist in the land, therefore I'm commanding you: Be sure to be generous to your poor and needy relatives in your land."

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

“They crowd the needy off the road;The poor of the land all hide themselves.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

“I was a father to the needy;I investigated the case I did not know [and assured justice].

“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?Was not my heart grieved for the needy?

“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

All my bones say, 'Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Your flock found a dwelling place in it;O God, in Your goodness You provided for the poor.

For the Lord hears the needyAnd does not despise His who are prisoners.

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

{A Prayer of David.} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Yet He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction,And makes their families like a flock.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

For He will stand at the right hand of the needy,To save him from those who judge his soul.

He has given freely to the poor;His righteousness endures forever;His horn will be exalted in honor.

I know [with confidence] that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted,And [will secure] justice for the poor.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord!For He has rescued the life of the needy oneFrom the hand of evildoers.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.