33 Bible Verses About Homelessness

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

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!

Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

And the man departed out of the city from Beth–lehem–judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.