Poor

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Isaiah 11:4 OT

  but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

• Isaiah 14:30 OT

  The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

• Isaiah 14:32 OT

  What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

• Isaiah 25:4 OT

  For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

• Isaiah 29:19 OT

  The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 20:13 OT

  Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

• Zephaniah 3:12 OT

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

• Zechariah 11:7 OT

  So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

• Matthew 11:5 NT

  the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

• Luke 4:18 NT

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are…

• Luke 7:22 NT

  Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to…

• Luke 16:22 NT

  The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

• James 2:5 NT

  Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

• Ruth 2:23 OT

  So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

• Ruth 2:14-16 OT

  At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it. When she had risen up to glean,…

• 1 Kings 17:12-24 OT

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.” Elijah…

• 2 Kings 4:1-7 OT

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be…

• Esther 9:22 OT

  as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents…

• Job 29:11-16 OT

  For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,…

• Job 31:16-21 OT

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her…

• Job 31:38-40 OT

  If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job…

• Isaiah 21:14 OT

  They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

• Jeremiah 39:10 OT

  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.