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both low and high, rich and poor alike:
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Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.
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The poor will see and be glad— you who seek God, may your hearts live!
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But as for me, I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; Lord, do not delay.
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Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace; may the poor and needy praise your name.
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Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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Psalm 86
A prayer of David.
Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
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For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever; their horn will be lifted high in honor.
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He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
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I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food.
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I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
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The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
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One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
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A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
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An unplowed field produces food for the poor, but injustice sweeps it away.
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The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
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Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
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Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
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The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
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Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.
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Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.
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The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.
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Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.
