Now a visitor came to the wealthy man, And he could not bring himself to take any animal from his own flock or his own herd, To prepare for the traveler who had come to him; So he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

Then he led into exile all the people of Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the valiant warriors, ten thousand exiles, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None were left except the poorest people of the land.

But the captain of the bodyguards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from grief into joy, and from mourning into a holiday; that they were to make them days of feasting and rejoicing, and sending portions of food to one another, and gifts to the poor.

But He saves from the sword of their mouth, And the poor from the hand of the strong.

His sons favor the poor, And his hands give back his wealth.

For he has oppressed and neglected the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.

They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land have to hide themselves together.

Others snatch an orphan from the breast, And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.

The poor move about naked without clothing, And they carry sheaves, while going hungry.

The murderer arises at dawn; He kills the poor and the needy, And at night he is like a thief.

Because I saved the poor who cried for help, And the orphan who had no helper.

I was a father to the poor, And I investigated the case which I did not know.

“If I have kept the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Who shows no partiality to the prominent, Nor regards the rich as above the poor, Since they are all the work of His hands?

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him, And that He would hear the cry of the afflicted—

“Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will put him in the safety for which he longs.”

You would put to shame the plan of the poor, But the Lord is his refuge.

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You, Who rescues the afflicted from one who is too strong for him, And the afflicted and the poor from one who robs him?”

Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

Your creatures settled in it; In Your kindness You provided for the poor, God.

He will have compassion on the poor and needy, And he will save the lives of the needy.

He has given freely to the poor, His righteousness endures forever; His horn will be exalted in honor.

He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the garbage heap,

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the poor.