Poverty & Oppression

"They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth"

Amos 2:7

"Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”"

Amos 4:1

"Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat,"

Amos 5:11

"For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?"

Ecclesiastes 6:8

"If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them."

Ecclesiastes 5:8

"But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?"

James 2:6

"and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores."

Luke 16:21

"so your poverty will come as a robber,"

Proverbs 6:11

"All the relatives of the poor shun him;"

Proverbs 19:7

"Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty."

Proverbs 20:13

"so your poverty will come as a robber"

Proverbs 24:34

"The poor man and the oppressor have this in common:"

Proverbs 29:13

"A needy man who oppresses the poor"

Proverbs 28:3

"Let him drink, and forget his poverty,"

Proverbs 31:7

"But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name."

Zephaniah 3:12