He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, And he hath set the world upon them.

I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

And they come to Jericho: and as he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way side.

and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores,

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried.

And it came to pass, as he drew nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:

The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;