Quotes about Poverty
The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
— Isaiah 32:7
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
— Lamentations 1:11
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
— Lamentations 4:4
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
— Lamentations 4:5
He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
— Ezekiel 18:12
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
— Ezekiel 22:29
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
— Amos 5:11
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
— Amos 8:4
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
— Amos 8:6
For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
— Matthew 25:42
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
— Matthew 26:11
Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
— Mark 12:42