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• the poor for ever toils, barely making a living, and then, leaving off, is poorer than ever. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 4)

• Offering sacrifice from the property of the poor is as bad as slaughtering a son before his father's eyes. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 20)

• A meagre diet is the very life of the poor, to deprive them of it is to commit murder. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 21)

• He never shows partiality to the detriment of the poor, he listens to the plea of the injured party. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 13)

• Yahweh is about to try the elders and the princes of his people, 'You are the ones who have ravaged the vineyard, the spoils of the poor are in your houses. (Isaiah 3, 14)

• By what right do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?' says the Lord Yahweh Sabaoth. (Isaiah 3, 15)

• While the first-born of the poor are grazing and the destitute are resting in safety, I shall make your stock die of hunger and then slaughter what remains of you. (Isaiah 14, 30)

• What reply will be given then to the messengers of that nation? - That Yahweh founded Zion and there the poor of his people will find refuge. (Isaiah 14, 32)

• Everything to do with the rascal is evil, he devises infamous plans to ruin the poor with lying words even when the needy has right on his side; (Isaiah 32, 7)

• Someone too poor to afford a sacrifice chooses a piece of wood that will not rot; he then seeks out a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not totter. (Isaiah 40, 20)

• Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if you see someone lacking clothes, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own kin? (Isaiah 58, 7)

• The very skirts of your robe are stained with the blood of the poor, of innocent men you never caught breaking and entering! And in spite of all this, (Jeremiah 2, 34)