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Letter "N" » needy
«What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.»
Author: Saint Augustine
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Bishop,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
by ear,
ears,
feet,
hands,
hand and foot,
hasten,
hastened,
hastening,
hastens,
hear,
help,
looks,
misery,
needy,
poor,
sighs,
sorrows,
the poor
«The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: / Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? / For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.»
«The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.»
«Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, / Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! / He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; / That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.»
«When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.»
«Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; / To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! / And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? / Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
bow down,
decree,
desolation,
Down Under,
fall under,
fatherless,
needy,
prisoners,
rob,
unrighteous,
widows
«Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: / At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.»
«And when We made a covenant with the children of Israel: You shall not serve any but Allah and (you shall do) good to (your) parents, and to the near of kin and to the orphans and the needy, and you shall speak to men good words and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate. Then you turned back except a few of you and (now too) you turn aside.»