Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.

你当为哑巴开口，为一切孤独的伸冤。

你当为不能自辩的人开口，为所有孤独无助者伸冤。

你当为不能自辩的人开口，为所有孤独无助者伸冤。

要为不能自辩者说话，为一切不幸的人申冤。

你要为不能自辩的人开口说话，为所有贫苦的人伸冤。

你当为哑巴和所有孤苦人的争讼开口。

你當為啞巴開口，為一切孤獨的伸冤。

你當為不能自辯的人開口，為所有孤獨無助者伸冤。

你當為不能自辯的人開口，為所有孤獨無助者伸冤。

要為不能自辯者說話，為一切不幸的人伸冤。

你要為不能自辯的人開口說話，為所有貧苦的人伸冤。

你要為啞巴開口，為一切行將過去的人辦案件；

你當為啞巴和所有孤苦人的爭訟開口。

當為喑啞者啟口、為孤獨者伸冤、

喑者代為口、危者伸其冤。

爾當為不敢自辨者不敢自辨者原文作瘖者啟口、為一切孤獨者伸冤、

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves. Speak up for the rights of all those who are poor.

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.

Open your mouth for the people who cannot speak, For the rights of all the unfortunate.

Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the power of the wicked.”

Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter.If you say,“ But we didn’t know about this,” won’t he who weighs hearts consider it? Won’t he who protects your life know? Won’t he repay a person according to his work?

But Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets,“ This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to all the assembled people,“ Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah and said to all the people of Judah,‘ This is what the LORD of Armies says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.’Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did not the king fear the LORD and plead for the LORD’s favor, and did not the LORD relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!”

Ahimelech replied to the king,“ Who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, and honored in your house.Was today the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Please don’t let the king make an accusation against your servant or any of my father’s family, for your servant didn’t have any idea about all this.”

“ Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official in the king’s palace, heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,Ebed-melech went from the king’s palace and spoke to the king:“ My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have dropped him into the cistern where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.”So the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Cushite,“ Take from here thirty men under your authority and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.”

For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.The dying blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool; he does not open his mouth at the city gate.

Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther,“ Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace.If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:“ Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”

Jonathan spoke well of David to his father, Saul. He said to him,“ The king should not sin against his servant David. He hasn’t sinned against you; in fact, his actions have been a great advantage to you.He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”Saul listened to Jonathan’s advice and swore an oath:“ As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be killed.”So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these words. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he did before.

Let the groans of the prisoners reach you; according to your great power, preserve those condemned to die.

City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Jonathan answered his father back,“ Why is he to be killed? What has he done?”