Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.
But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;
God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
O house of David! Thus says the Lord: “‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.’”