'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."

Don't take advantage of a hired person who is poor and needy, whether he's your fellow citizen or a foreigner who lives in your city.

He raises the poor up from the dust, he lifts up the needy from the trash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. Indeed the pillars of the earth belong to the LORD, and he has set the world on them.

They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding.

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief.

I was a father to the needy; I diligently inquired into the case of those I didn't know.

"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?

Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy?

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?"

But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think about me. You are my help and deliverer. My God, do not tarry too long! To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

Your people live there; you sustain the needy with your goodness, God.

For the LORD listens to the needy and doesn't despise those in bondage.

As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

For he will deliver the needy when they cry out for help, and the poor when there is no deliverer.

He will have compassion on the poor and the needy, and he will save the lives of the needy.

Don't let the oppressed return in humiliation. The poor and needy will praise your name.

Rescue the poor and the needy, delivering them from the power of the wicked.

LORD, listen and answer me, for I am afflicted and needy.

Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock.

For he didn't think to extend gracious love; he harassed to death the poor, the needy, and the broken hearted.

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

for he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to deliver him from his accusers. A Davidic psalm

He lifts the poor person from the dust, raising the needy from the trash pile

I know that the LORD will act on behalf of the tormented, providing justice for the needy.

Whoever oppresses the poor defies their Creator, but whoever is kind to the needy honors them.

Some people have swords for teeth and knives for fangs to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans!

but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips.

The firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I'll kill your root by famine, and I'll execute your survivors.

For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat for the blistering attack from the ruthless is like a rainstorm beating against a wall,

by the feet of the oppressed who trample it, by the footsteps of the needy.

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

"As for the poor, the needy, those seeking water when there is none and their tongues are parched from thirst I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, won't abandon them.

He judged the case of the poor and needy. And then it went well for him. Isn't this what it means to know me?

Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help the poor and needy.

The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner.

moving quickly to rub the face of the needy in the dirt. Corrupting the ways of the humble, a man and his father go to the same woman, deliberately defiling my holy name.

"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.'

The thief must no longer steal but must work hard and do what is good with his own hands, so that he might earn something to give to the needy.

They were stoned to death, sawed in half, and killed with swords. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins. They were needy, oppressed, and mistreated.