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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Job 34:19 OT

  He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

• Proverbs 22:2 OT

  The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

• 1 Samuel 2:7 OT

  Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• Job 1:21 OT

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Proverbs 20:13 OT

  Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

• Proverbs 28:19 OT

  One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

• Proverbs 23:21 OT

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Psalms 9:18 OT

  For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

• Psalms 69:33 OT

  For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

• Isaiah 41:17 OT

  The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

• Psalms 140:12 OT

  I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

• Job 36:15 OT

  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

• Psalms 35:10 OT

  All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

• Psalms 12:5 OT

  “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

• Psalms 109:31 OT

  For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

• 1 Samuel 2:8 OT

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

• Psalms 107:41 OT

  Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

• Psalms 68:10 OT

  Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

• Psalms 146:7 OT

  who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

• Psalms 102:17 OT

  He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

• Psalms 14:6 OT

  You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

• Deuteronomy 15:11 OT

  For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

• Zephaniah 3:12 OT

  But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

• Matthew 26:11 NT

  For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.