אֶבְיוֹן

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

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.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

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.

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 of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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

“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.”

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?”

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

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

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

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.

Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

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

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

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

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

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

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

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

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.