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Proverbs 28 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs 22 2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 11 24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Proverbs 30 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Proverbs 22 22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Psalms 82 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Luke 15 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Psalms 107 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Proverbs 13 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Isaiah 1 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Amos 8 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Psalms 49 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Proverbs 19 4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Ezekiel 22 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Genesis 43 1 And the famine was sore in the land.
Ecclesiastes 5 8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
2 Corinthians 8 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Job 29 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Proverbs 18 23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Proverbs 31 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Job 3 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
Genesis 45 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Genesis 41 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 29 7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Romans 3 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Genesis 41 31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
Proverbs 10 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Jeremiah 12 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Isaiah 24 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Psalms 82 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
2 Kings 25 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Psalms 107 39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Proverbs 30 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Proverbs 31 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Job 10 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Romans 11 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Amos 8 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Job 24 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Deuteronomy 15 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Jeremiah 50 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Amos 4 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Lamentations 5 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Genesis 47 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Malachi 1 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
James 2 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Proverbs 24 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Isaiah 13 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.