¹¹ For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

¹² But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

⁷ Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;