'Poor and Needy' in the Bible
You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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 behavior.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: you are 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 your name.
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
[A Prayer of David.] Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Because he remembered not to show 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.
Open your 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 tongues fail for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Has oppressed the poor and needy, has robbed by violence, 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 committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.