Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

求你献谋略，行公平，使你的影子在午间如黑夜，隐藏被赶散的人，不可显露逃民。

求你赐谋略，行公平，使你的影子在正午如黑夜，掩护逃亡的人，不泄露逃难者的行踪。

求你赐谋略，行公平，使你的影子在正午如黑夜，掩护逃亡的人，不泄露逃难者的行踪。

他们对犹大人说：“给我们出个主意，伸张正义吧！请让你们的影子在正午如黑夜，遮盖逃难的人，不要出卖逃亡者。

“求你给我们献谋略，作裁判！使你的影子在午间如同黑夜，把被赶逐的人隐藏起来，不可出卖逃亡的人。

摩押说：“求你出谋略，作裁决，使你的影子在正午时如同黑夜，隐藏被驱赶的人，不要暴露逃亡的人；

求你獻謀略，行公平，使你的影子在午間如黑夜，隱藏被趕散的人，不可顯露逃民。

求你賜謀略，行公平，使你的影子在正午如黑夜，掩護逃亡的人，不洩露逃難者的行蹤。

求你賜謀略，行公平，使你的影子在正午如黑夜，掩護逃亡的人，不洩露逃難者的行蹤。

他們對猶大人說：「給我們出個主意，伸張正義吧！請讓你們的影子在正午如黑夜，遮蓋逃難的人，不要出賣逃亡者。

“求你給我們獻謀略，作裁判！使你的影子在午間如同黑夜，把被趕逐的人隱藏起來，不可出賣逃亡的人。

『獻謀略哦！行裁奪哦！使你的影子在午間如黑夜哦！將被趕散的人隱藏起來；不可顯露逃亡之民哦；

摩押說：「求你出謀略，作裁決，使你的影子在正午時如同黑夜，隱藏被驅趕的人，不要暴露逃亡的人；

爾其設謀行義、亭午施蔭若夜、見逐者當藏匿之、逃遁者勿發覺之、

曰、請示我、為我折中、時至亭午、請施庇蔭、有若昏夜、予逢驅逐、爾其匿之、予避患難、爾其藏之、

彼將曰、求爾設謀定議、於嚮午之時施蔭庇、有若昏夜、藏被驅逐者、勿使逃避者顯露、

“ Make up your mind,” Moab says.“ Render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.

The Moabites say to the rulers of Judah,“ Make up your mind. Make a decision. Cover us with your shadow. Make it like night even at noon. Hide those of us who are running away. Don’t turn them over to their enemies.

“ Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive;

“ Help us,” they cry.“ Defend us against our enemies. Protect us from their relentless attack. Do not betray us now that we have escaped.

Give us counsel and make a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade that is as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

“ Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

“ Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes.

Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

Give us counsel and make a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade that is as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

“ Bring a plan, make a decision! Provide some shade in the middle of the day! Hide the fugitives! Do not betray the one who tries to escape!

for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

House of David, Yahweh says,‘ Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

“‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.“ You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty- five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said,“ It is better for me to die than to live.”

“ The bramble said to the trees,‘ If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

“ Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying,‘ Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

“ Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,“ I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

Yahweh says:“ Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.