Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. the LORD, don't delay.
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Hear, the LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
He said, "Blessed are you by the LORD, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
And when I saw the abundance of meat, I said to my son, "Go and bring whatsoever poor man you find among our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord, and, see, I will wait for you."
And do not be afraid, my son, that we might become poor; for you have much wealth, if you fear God and depart from all sin and do what is pleasing in his sight."
"Give alms from your resources; and when you give alms, do not let your eye be envious, nor turn your face from any of the poor, and then the face of God shall not be turned away from you.
It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.
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