Proverbs 11:24

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

Proverbs 10:15

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 10:3-4

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Psalm 146:7-9

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners: The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loved the righteous: The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Psalm 113:7-8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

Psalm 112:9

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

Psalm 109:31

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Psalm 109:22

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

Psalm 109:9-10, 16

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow, Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places...

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the borken in heart.

Psalm 107:41

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

Psalm 107:35-36

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Psalm 94:6-7

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Psalm 86:1

Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Ezekiel 18:14

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, ...Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgment, hath walked in my statuets; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:10, 12-13

If he beget a son that ... Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoled by violence, hath not restroed the pledge, and had lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, ... he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Ezeziel 18:5, 6-7, 9

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right... And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; ...he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

Ezeziel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idlesness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Jeremiah 52:16

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let they widows trust in me.

Jeremiah 39:10

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and have them vineyards and field at the same time.

Psalm 74:21

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Psalm 72:12-14

For he shall deliver the meedy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Psalm 72:1-4

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. He shall jude the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Psalm 69:33

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Psalm 68:10

Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 37:14

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Leviticus 19:10

And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of they vineyard; though shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

Jeremiah 22:13, 15-17

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest theyself in cedar? did not they father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 22:3-6

Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on hourses, he, and his servants, and his people. But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, taht his house shall become a desolation.

Jeremiah 7:6-7

If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

Psalm 14:6

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Psalm 10:8-11, 14, 17-18

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. He crouchet, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it...

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless...

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 9:18

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Job 29:12, 15-16

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

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Job 31:16-19

If I have withhheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering...

Job 30:25

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

Exodus 30:15

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.

Exodus 23:11-12

But the seventh year thou shalt let it [the land] rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beass of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Six days thou shalt do they work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Exodus 23:3, 6

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause...

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of they poor in his cause.

Exodus 22:25-27

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

Exodus 22:21-24

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

Any my wrath whall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.