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If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

…because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.

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.

For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

“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.”

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

For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

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

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?”

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

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

But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

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.

Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

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

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

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

He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.

All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

…there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.