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I thought, 'These are only the poor! They behave stupidly since they do not know Yahweh's way or the ruling of their God. (Jeremiah 5, 4)
He used to examine the cases of poor and needy, then all went well. Is not that what it means to know me? Yahweh demands. (Jeremiah 22, 16)
That is why Yahweh says this about Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: 'No lamenting for him, "My poor brother! My poor sister!" No lamenting for him, "His poor lordship! His poor majesty!" (Jeremiah 22, 18)
But Nebuzaradan commander of the guard left some of the poor people behind in the country of Judah, those who had nothing, at the same time giving them vineyards and fields. (Jeremiah 39, 10)
When the military leaders who with their men were still in the field, all heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor of the country, making him responsible for the men, women and children, and those of the poor country people who had not been deported to Babylon, (Jeremiah 40, 7)
Nebuzaradan commander of the guard deported (some of the poor people and) the remainder of the population left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans. (Jeremiah 52, 15)
But Nebuzaradan commander of the guard left some of the poor country-people behind as vineyard workers and ploughmen. (Jeremiah 52, 16)
Whatever is sacrificed to them, the priests re-sell and pocket the profit; while their wives salt down part of it, but give nothing to the poor or to the helpless. As to the sacrifices themselves, why, women during their periods and women in childbed are not afraid to touch them! (Baruch 6, 27)
The crime of your sister Sodom was pride, gluttony, calm complacency; such were hers and her daughters' crimes. They never helped the poor and needy; (Ezekiel 16, 49)
who oppresses the poor and needy, robs, fails to return pledges, raises his eyes to foul idols, engages in loathsome practices, (Ezekiel 18, 12)
The people of the country have taken to extortion and banditry; they have oppressed the poor and needy and ill-treated the settler in a way that is unjustifiable. (Ezekiel 22, 29)
May it please the king to accept my advice: by upright actions break with your sins, break with your crimes by showing mercy to the poor, and so live long and peacefully.' (Daniel 4, 24)