Quotes About Poverty

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widowís ox in pledge.

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

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

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

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

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widowís eyes to fail,

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

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

He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.

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

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.

He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.