If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together.

我们中间没有听讼的人可以向我们两造按手。

我们中间没有仲裁者，可以按手在我们两造之间。

我们中间没有仲裁者，可以按手在我们两造之间。

我俩中间没有仲裁者，无人为我们断定是非。

我俩之间并没有仲裁者，能够按手在我们双方身上。

我們中間沒有聽訟的人可以向我們兩造按手。

我們中間沒有仲裁者，可以按手在我們兩造之間。

我們中間沒有仲裁者，可以按手在我們兩造之間。

我倆中間沒有仲裁者，無人為我們斷定是非。

我倆之間並沒有仲裁者，能夠按手在我們雙方身上。

他與我之間並沒有仲裁者可以向我們兩造按手。

其間無聽訟者、措手於我兩造、

更無聽訟之人、可定兩造曲直。

我與天主間無聽訟者、可使兩造俱服其斷、

If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together,

I wish someone would settle matters between us. I wish someone would bring us together.

There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

There is no arbitrator between us, Who can place his hand upon us both.

Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.

There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.

There is no one to judge between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,[ that] might lay his hand upon us both.

Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

If someone sins against another person, God can mediate for the guilty party. But if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede?” But Eli’s sons wouldn’t listen to their father, for the Lord was already planning to put them to death.

If it’s a question of strength, he’s the strong one. If it’s a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court?

My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous.He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins— and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.

So he declared he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the Lord and the people. He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.

Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled.“ Please, my lord,” one of them began,“ this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house.Three days later this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.“ But her baby died during the night when she rolled over on it.Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t my son at all.”Then the other woman interrupted,“ It certainly was your son, and the living child is mine.”“ No,” the first woman said,“ the living child is mine, and the dead one is yours.” And so they argued back and forth before the king.Then the king said,“ Let’s get the facts straight. Both of you claim the living child is yours, and each says that the dead one belongs to the other.All right, bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought to the king.Then he said,“ Cut the living child in two, and give half to one woman and half to the other!”Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out,“ Oh no, my lord! Give her the child— please do not kill him!” But the other woman said,“ All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”Then the king said,“ Do not kill the child, but give him to the woman who wants him to live, for she is his mother!”When all Israel heard the king’s decision, the people were in awe of the king, for they saw the wisdom God had given him for rendering justice.