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Poor: God's Care of 1 Samuel 2:7

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

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Poor: God's Care of Job 5:15, 16

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful. / So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

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Poor: God's Care of Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

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Poor: God's Care of Job 34:18, 19, 28

who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’ / who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands. / They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.

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Poor: God's Care of Job 36:6, 15

He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted. / God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 9:18

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 10:14

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 12:5

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 14:6

You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 34:6

This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 35:10

All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 68:10

Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 69:33

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 72:2, 4, 12–14

May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice. / May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor. / For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 74:21

Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 102:17

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 107:9, 36, 41

For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. / He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell. / But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 109:31

For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 113:7, 8

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump / to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 132:15

I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 140:12

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

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Poor: God's Care of Psalm 146:5, 7

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, / He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

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Poor: God's Care of Proverbs 22:2, 22, 23

The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all. / Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, / for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

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Poor: God's Care of Proverbs 29:13

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

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Poor: God's Care of Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

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Poor: God's Care of Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

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Poor: God's Care of Isaiah 14:30, 32

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain. / What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

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Poor: God's Care of Isaiah 25:4

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

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Poor: God's Care of Isaiah 29:19

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

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Poor: God's Care of Isaiah 41:17

The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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Poor: God's Care of Jeremiah 20:13

Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.

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Poor: God's Care of Zephaniah 3:12

But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

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Poor: God's Care of Zechariah 11:7

So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

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Poor: God's Care of Matthew 11:5

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

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Poor: God's Care of Luke 4:18

“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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

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Poor: God's Care of Luke 7:22

So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

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Poor: God's Care of Luke 16:22

One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.

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Poor: God's Care of James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

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