Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!

He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

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

O Lord, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!

The one who oppresses the poor insults his Creator, but whoever shows favor to the needy honors him.

The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich – both end up only in poverty.

For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the Lord delivers him.

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.

Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

He said, “May you be rewarded by the Lord, my dear! This act of devotion is greater than what you did before. For you have not sought to marry one of the young men, whether rich or poor.

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

“If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.

He asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.