17 occurrences

'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: make haste unto me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

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

[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.

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.

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,