High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.
The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.
But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.
O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.
O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.
When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;
But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.
He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;
My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.
For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.
A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.
A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.
There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.
The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.
For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.
Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.
And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.
Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.
For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.
It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.
And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the people, who had nothing whatever, go on living in the land of Judah, and gave them vine-gardens and fields at the same time.
Now when it came to the ears of all the captains of the forces who were in the field, and their men, that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, ruler in the land, and had put under his care the men and women and children, all the poorest of the land, those who had not been taken away to Babylon;
But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.
Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,
Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.
The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.
But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.
For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.
The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.
Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.
For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.
And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:
We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
For he has had pity on his servant, though she is poor and lowly placed: and from this hour will all generations give witness to the blessing which has come to me.
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.
And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.
But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:
And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.
And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.
And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.
And he said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has given more than all of them:
Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.
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