48 Bible results for “poor” from New Living Translation, King James Version, New International Version, New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, and The Message. Results 1-25. 
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  • The Message
    The wicked bought a one-way ticket to hell. No longer will the poor be nameless— no more humiliation for the humble. Up, God! Aren’t you fed up with their empty strutting? Expose these grand pretensions! Shake them up, God! Show them how silly they look.
  • King James Version
    He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
    they lurk in secret like a lion in its den; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.
  • The Message
    They mark the luckless, then wait like a hunter in a blind; When the poor wretch wanders too close, they stab him in the back.
  • New Living Translation
    The Lord replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do.”
  • King James Version
    For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
  • New International Version
    “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
    “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”
  • The Message
    Into the hovels of the poor, Into the dark streets where the homeless groan, God speaks: “I’ve had enough; I’m on my way To heal the ache in the heart of the wretched.”
  • New Living Translation
    With every bone in my body I will praise him: “Lord, who can compare with you? Who else rescues the helpless from the strong? Who else protects the helpless and poor from those who rob them?”
  • King James Version
    All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
  • New International Version
    My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, Lord? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”
  • New Living Translation
    As for me, since I am poor and needy, let the Lord keep me in his thoughts. You are my helper and my savior. O my God, do not delay.
  • King James Version
    But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
  • New International Version
    But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; you are my God, do not delay.
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
    As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.
  • New Living Translation

    Psalm 41

    For the choir director: A psalm of David.

    Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor! The Lord rescues them when they are in trouble.
  • King James Version
    Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

    Psalm 41

    Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing

    To the leader. A Psalm of David.

    Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.
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New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)

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The Message (MSG)

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26 topical index results for “poor”

COLLECTION : (Of money, for the poor people)
LAND : To rest every seventh year for the benefit of the poor people (Exodus 23:11)
PHILANTHROPY : See POOR
POTTERY : Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people (Matthew 27:7-10)
SELFISHNESS : See POOR
AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES » UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO » See POOR
ALMS » COMMANDMENTS AND PRACTICES CONCERNING » See POOR
BEGGARS » INSTANCES OF » See POOR
CHURCH » MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS » CONGREGATION OF THE LORD'S POOR (Psalms 74:19)
DISHONESTY » INSTANCES OF » Judas' hypocritical sympathy for the poor ( John 12:6)
INCONSISTENCY » INSTANCES OF » The Jews, in oppressing the poor (Nehemiah 5:9)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » (For the history of the above kings see under each » The poorest of the people were left to occupy the country, and were joined by fragments of the army of Judah, the dispersed Israelites in other lands, and the king's daughters (2 Kings 25:12,22,23; Jeremiah 39:10;40:7-12;52:16)
LIBERALITY » INSTANCES OF » The poor widow (Luke 21:2-4)