¹ > Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, For I am poor and needy.

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.

² Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

⁹ But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed,

³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹⁸ My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

² For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

¹⁷ Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

¹ > I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

¹² I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.

²² Take reproach and contempt away from me, For I have kept your statutes.

¹⁷ He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, And has not despised their prayer.

¹ > Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

¹² For he will deliver the needy when he cries; The poor, who has no helper.

¹³ He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

¹⁴ He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

⁶ This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

⁶ I have called on you, for you will answer me, God: Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

¹⁴ But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.