Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. Wh
Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken
Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David
“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of
The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.