Beggars

“He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.”

“I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.”

“May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.”

“The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.”

“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.”

“Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.”

“And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores”

“At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?””