'Needy' in the Bible

For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.

And he saveth the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

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

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.

For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.

But I am afflicted and needy: make haste unto me, O God. Thou art my help and my deliverer: O Jehovah, make no delay.

He will do justice to the afflicted of the people; he will save the children of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

For he will deliver the needy who crieth, and the afflicted, who hath no helper;

He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy:

Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

{A Prayer of David.} Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.

But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.

Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.

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

For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.

He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy ones with bread;

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted one, the right of the needy.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy.

a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.

She stretcheth out her hand to the afflicted, and she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; but I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones has been as the storm against a wall.

and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.

Sing ye unto Jehovah, praise Jehovah, for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

hath oppressed the poor and needy, exercised robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,

The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:

For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.