24 Bible Verses About Caring for the Vulnerable

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth–lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.