Poor

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 28:3 OT

  A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

• Proverbs 28:15 OT

  As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

• Proverbs 30:14 OT

  There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

• Isaiah 3:14 OT

  Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

• Isaiah 3:15 OT

  What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 10:1 OT

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

• Isaiah 10:2 OT

  to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

• Isaiah 32:6 OT

  For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

• Isaiah 32:7 OT

  The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

• Ezekiel 18:12 OT

  has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

• Ezekiel 22:29 OT

  The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

• Amos 2:6-8 OT

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; They trample on the dust of the earth on the head…

• Amos 4:1 OT

  Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

• Amos 4:2 OT

  The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

• Amos 5:11 OT

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Amos 5:12 OT

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

• Amos 8:4 OT

  Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

• Amos 8:6 OT

  that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

• Habakkuk 3:14 OT

  You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

• James 2:6 NT

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?