'Poor' in the Bible

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

“In the fullness of his excess (great abundance) he will be in trouble;The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him [he is miserable on every side].

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Like wild donkeys in the desert,the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.

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

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.