Bible Verses About The Poor: Oppress

They push the needy out of the way -the poor of the land are forced into hiding;

like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.

They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.

They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,

wet with mountain rain, and hugging the rock for lack of shelter.

"There are those who pluck orphans from the breast and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,

so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];

wrongs the poor and needy, takes by robbery, doesn't restore pledged property, raises his eyes toward the idols, engages in disgusting practices,